The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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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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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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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