The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADEEven those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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