Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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