One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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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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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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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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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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