God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
MARQUIS DE SADEHow delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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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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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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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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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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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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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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