Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
MARQUIS DE SADECan we become other than what we are?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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