Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADEI have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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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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Never 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.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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