Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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