No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
MARQUIS DE SADEI’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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