If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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 rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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