There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
MARQUIS DE SADENow 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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