You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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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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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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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 an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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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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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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