I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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