And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
MARQUIS DE SADEEither kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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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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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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