The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
MARQUIS DE SADEWere he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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