How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
MARQUIS DE SADELust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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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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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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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 degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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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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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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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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