One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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