There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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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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