There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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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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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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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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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.
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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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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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