Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade

"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author."
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"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author."
Marquis de Sade
"The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success."
Marquis de Sade
"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?"
Marquis de Sade
"Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries."
Marquis de Sade
"Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist."
Marquis de Sade
"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."
Marquis de Sade
"Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction."
Marquis de Sade
"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization."
Marquis de Sade
"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."
Marquis de Sade
"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one."
Marquis de Sade
"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced."
Marquis de Sade
"What is more immoral than war?"
Marquis de Sade
"It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns"
Marquis de Sade
"...and above all, you should not think of writing as a way of earning your living. If you do, your work will smell of your poverty. It will be colored by your weakness and be as thin as your hunger. There are other trades which you can take up: make boots, not books."
Marquis de Sade
"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."
Marquis de Sade
"I want to be the victim of his errors."
Marquis de Sade
"Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated."
Marquis de Sade
"Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me"
Marquis de Sade
"In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man."
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."
Marquis de Sade
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