The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhen 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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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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What is more immoral than war?
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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