Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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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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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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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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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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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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What is more immoral than war?
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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