So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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One 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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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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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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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