Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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