Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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