It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
MARQUIS DE SADEIf 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?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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.
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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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.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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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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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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