Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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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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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Can we become other than what we are?
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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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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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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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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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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