Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
MARQUIS DE SADEThat 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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.
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