Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
MARQUIS DE SADELet not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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