Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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God 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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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What is more immoral than war?
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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