Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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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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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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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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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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