Marquis de Sade Quotes

One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Desire Greater More Object One Pleasure Surrender Violence
According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Change Death Existence Imperceptible Irrefutable Passage
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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All Fancy Moral Principle Universal
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Along Bloom Everywhere Path Rose Thron Vice
Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Body Children Deform Enemy Into Late Turn Twenty Women Years
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Appear Hope Human Misfortune Nothingless Race Return Ridiculous Tournament
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Come Kind Object Offer Pleasure Profanation Sacrilege Worship
We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Also Monster Nature Necessary
Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Further God Inspire Perversion Plunge Present Satan Smoke Something Unique
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
MARQUIS DE SADE

Everything Happy Isdiscrimately Let Ourselves Passion Suggest
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Drive Excess Man Out Puty Sensual
What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Asleep Effect Find Life Moment Myself Perpetual Should Single
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Lust Most Multiply Powerful Variety Vehicle
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Damage Darken Event Figure Charm Hang Health Husband Mood Pregnancy Uncertainty
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Approve Care Manner Say Suppose Think
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Chastenenth Earth God Helf Holy Intention Life Lord May Permit Presecute Question Reward Righteous Scripture
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Allow Appetite Drink Eat False Important Modesty Ought Restrain Satisfy Sex
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Creation Destructive Hence Mandate Nature
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Abstraction Being Entirely Feel Happiness Imagination Moved Product Spend Way
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Change Complain Easily Fate
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Amuse Characteristics Degradation Delight Please Plunge Punuish Stae
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Alter Fool Man Other Say Suit Think Tolerate
So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
MARQUIS DE SADE

Absurd Civilize Consequence Depravity Maintain Cruelty Men Nature Nearer
What is more immoral than war?
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Immortal More War
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Defect Less Lovable May More Older Resound Success
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Anatomy Certain Conversation Lubricate Portion Run Smooth
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Active Impression Keener Kind More Pain Sensation Unmistakable

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