In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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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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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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