Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
MARQUIS DE SADEYour service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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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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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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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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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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