Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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