The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
MARQUIS DE SADEIs it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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The 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.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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