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.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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