Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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