I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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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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