The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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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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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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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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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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