Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
MARQUIS DE SADEHere 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!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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