Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
MARQUIS DE SADEYou 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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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