She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
MARQUIS DE SADEWe monsters are necessary to nature also.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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.
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What is more immoral than war?
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