So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
MARQUIS DE SADEBeauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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