It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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