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.
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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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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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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