Quotes by Marquis de Sade

"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."

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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."

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

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"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."

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"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust."

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