God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
MARQUIS DE SADEDread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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What is more immoral than war?
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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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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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