The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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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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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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