Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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 more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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