Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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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.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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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