Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
MARQUIS DE SADEWe are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with 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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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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