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.
MARQUIS DE SADESex 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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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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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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