How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
MARQUIS DE SADELet not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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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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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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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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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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