Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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