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.
MARQUIS DE SADESo much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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What is more immoral than war?
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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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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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