Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
MARQUIS DE SADEConspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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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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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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