Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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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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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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