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.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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What is more immoral than war?
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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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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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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