What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
MARQUIS DE SADECertain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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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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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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