The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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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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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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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