Marquis de Sade Quotes - Page 4

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• In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.

  Marquis de Sade

  Inspiration, Law, Conflict

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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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  Men, Birth Defects, May

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• Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

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  Change, Strength, Wisdom

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

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  Lying, True Happiness, Virtue

  "The 120 days of Sodom and other writings".

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• Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

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  Nature, Reality, Creation

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

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  Powerful, Two, Lust

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

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  Faith, Understanding, Connections

  Marquis de Sade (2016). “Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man”, p.6, BoD – Books on Demand

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• If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.

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  Death, Real, Simple

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• Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

  Marquis de Sade

  Enjoyment

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

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  Kinky, Literature, Misfortunes Of Others

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• I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

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  Yield, Whim, Universe

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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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  Believe, Two, Mad

  Marquis de Sade (2016). “Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

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  Add, Mystery, Pleasure

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. 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.

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  Husband, Pregnancy, Clouds

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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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  Wish, Teach, Enigma

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• The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

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  Stars, Majority, Idiot

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• Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

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  Quiet, Reason, Humans

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• 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, 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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  Would Be, Causes, Chaos

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• Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

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  Imagination, Fiction, Literature

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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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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  Wise, Nature, Atheism

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• Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

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  Medicine, Mistress, Needs

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• Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Principles

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• It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

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  Atheism, Vices, Opinion

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• I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

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  Art, Doubt, Might

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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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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  Exercise, Principles, Outcomes

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