Marquis De Sade Quotes

Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?

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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

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‎"...θα πρέπει να αντιληφθείς, αγαπητή Τερέζα, ότι τα αντικείμενα δεν έχουν, κατά την άπο�%8

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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.

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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? 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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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

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Lector, "alegría, saludo y salud", decían antaño nuestros antepasados cuando acababan un cuento. | Historietas, cuentos y fábulas - Marqués de Sade.

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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

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Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me

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