It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
MARQUIS DE SADELust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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