I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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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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