Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
MARQUIS DE SADENever may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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 is more immoral than war?
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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 degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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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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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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