Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
MARQUIS DE SADEPrejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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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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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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 my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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