Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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