I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.


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But a wife..."
"...is an individual who can be interesting when one makes use of her, but one m...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman i...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Women are not made for one single man; 'tis for men at large Nature created them.
MARQUIS DE SADE
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of th...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her ...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Ah, Eug?nie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divi...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.
MARQUIS DE SADE
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cann...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
MARQUIS DE SADE
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
MARQUIS DE SADE
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as po...
MARQUIS DE SADE
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abol...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADE
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and th...
MARQUIS DE SADE
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others
MARQUIS DE SADE
My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, wit...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather...
MARQUIS DE SADE
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because y...
MARQUIS DE SADE
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADE
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of whic...
MARQUIS DE SADE
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
MARQUIS DE SADE
“All creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another."
MARQUIS DE SADE
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simp...
MARQUIS DE SADE
It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to ...
MARQUIS DE SADE
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpleton...
MARQUIS DE SADE
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADE
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind
MARQUIS DE SADE
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolitio...
MARQUIS DE SADE
I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I k...
SADE ANDRIA ZABALA
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADE
The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's jus...
MARQUIS DE SADE
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women
MARQUIS DE SADE
''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied...
MARQUIS DE SADE
To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vit...
MARQUIS DE SADE
How delicious are these implements of torture.
MARQUIS DE SADE
True felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
MARQUIS DE SADE
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADE
Last night you were, unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me . . . ...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist
MARQUIS DE SADE
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying gl...
MARQUIS DE SADE
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
MARQUIS DE SADE
The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.
MARQUIS DE SADE
I want to be the victim of his errors.
MARQUIS DE SADE
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain
MARQUIS DE SADE
Sex without pain is like food without taste
MARQUIS DE SADE
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her flood...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?
MARQUIS DE SADE
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary...
MARQUIS DE SADE