For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
MARQUIS DE SADEI’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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