The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADENature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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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 horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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