And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
MARQUIS DE SADEGood 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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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.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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