It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
MARQUIS DE SADEFear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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 are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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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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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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