Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADEGod strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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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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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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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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