I want to be the victim of his errors.
MARQUIS DE SADEI have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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