I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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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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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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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 most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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