Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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