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.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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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 primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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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