Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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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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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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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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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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