And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
MARQUIS DE SADEOh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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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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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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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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