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.
MARQUIS DE SADESex without pain is like food without taste
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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 are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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