The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
MARQUIS DE SADEI’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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