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Marquis de Sade Quotes: Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
         

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.


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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.



It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.



I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.



Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.



Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.



In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.



My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.



Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.



Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.



One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.





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