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Marquis de Sade Quotes

Marquis de Sade quotes

French Novelist, Writer, Philosopher June 2, 1740 – December 2, 1814

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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold. Marquis de Sade
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. Marquis de Sade
...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born... Marquis de Sade
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. Marquis de Sade
To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover how great is the peril which follows the footsteps of those who will stop at nothing to satisfy their desires. Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade quote: "Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way,..."
Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply. Marquis de Sade
I suggest somewhere that anyone who wishes to write and has no aptitude for it would be better off making shoes for ladies and boots for men. Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade quote: "Between understanding and faith immediate connections must..."
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. Marquis de Sade
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! Marquis de Sade
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. Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade quote: "It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure."
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade quote: "It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure"
It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade quote: "I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to..."
I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties. Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade quote: "Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?"
Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff? Marquis de Sade
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. Marquis de Sade

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