One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
MARQUIS DE SADEPregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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