One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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