One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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 idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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