My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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