You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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… - Marquis De Sade
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…
- Marquis De Sade
I've been to Hell. You've only read about it. - Marquis De Sade
I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.
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. - Marquis De Sade
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.
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me. - Marquis De Sade
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of … - Marquis De Sade
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of …
Sex without pain is like food without taste - Marquis De Sade
Sex without pain is like food without taste
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. - Marquis De Sade
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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
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.
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change. - Marquis De Sade
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
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