So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
MARQUIS DE SADEI assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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What is more immoral than war?
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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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.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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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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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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