I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.


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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.
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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
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, wit...
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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.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of whic...
MARQUIS DE SADE
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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“All creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another."
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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.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind
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'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.
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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
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''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.
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True felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying gl...
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her flood...
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Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary...
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