Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
MARQUIS DE SADEFor my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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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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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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