“Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?”
Marquis De Sade
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“Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of nought but prejudice!”
Marquis De Sade
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“They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.”
Marquis De Sade
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“Your daughter is old enough to do what she pleases … she likes to fuck, loves to fuck … she was born to fuck, and … if you do not wish to be fucked yourself, the best thing for you to do is to let her do what she wants.”
Marquis De Sade
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“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
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“Are wars … anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?”
Marquis De Sade
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“The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.”
Marquis De Sade
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“No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.”
Marquis De Sade
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“The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?”
Marquis De Sade
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“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.”
Marquis De Sade
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“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”
Marquis De Sade
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“Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch’s soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.”
Marquis De Sade
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“Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.”
Marquis De Sade
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“One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.”
Marquis De Sade
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“Woman’s destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.”
Marquis De Sade
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“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.”
Marquis De Sade
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“Religions are the cradles of despotism.”
Marquis De Sade
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“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”
Marquis De Sade
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“Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.”
Marquis De Sade
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“The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.”
Marquis De Sade
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