Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
MARQUIS DE SADEImperious, 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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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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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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