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.
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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Dread 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.
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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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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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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 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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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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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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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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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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