Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
MARQUIS DE SADEOne is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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We 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.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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