Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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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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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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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