I want to be the victim of his errors.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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