The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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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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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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