We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
MARQUIS DE SADEConscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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 lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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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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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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