For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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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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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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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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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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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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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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