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Marquis De Sade Quotes
«Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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according, Act of, act upon, arbitrarily, Born Free, classes, Equal rights, exclusive, exercised, granted, lay, laying on of hands, lay hands on, legitimate, monopolize, monopolized, possess, possession, principles, sexes, sex act, sight, slaves, unjust
«The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
cast, designs, light upon, moves, mysterious, providence, The Ultimate, triumph
«Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.»
«Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
atheistic, choleric, dissolute, extreme, fanaticism, imperious, in a nutshell, irascible, Me again, nutshell, Take Me, the like, to the point
«Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
area, behaving, concentrate, executioners, hell raising, incessantly, lacerate, lacerated, lacerating, on that, raises, raise hell, raising hell, renew, sensitive, torment, wounds, wretch, wretches
«Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.»
«The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.»
«Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.»
«Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
adulteress, adulteresses, advance, along, girl, incestuous, progress, rapidity, sodomite, sodomites, stroke, stroked, The Strokes, thorny, vice