No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
MARQUIS DE SADEChimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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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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