God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
MARQUIS DE SADEDo not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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