Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
MARQUIS DE SADEDeep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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 is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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