Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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