So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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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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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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What is more immoral than war?
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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