If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
MARQUIS DE SADEVariety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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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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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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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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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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