We monsters are necessary to nature also.
MARQUIS DE SADESexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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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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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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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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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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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