Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADETo judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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