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.
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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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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 debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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