What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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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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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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