Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADEThere is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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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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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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