Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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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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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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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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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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