It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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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 completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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What is more immoral than war?
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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