Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
MARQUIS DE SADEWe devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of 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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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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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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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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 idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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