What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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