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Marquis de Sade Quotes

Marquis de Sade quotes

French Novelist, Writer, Philosopher June 2, 1740 – December 2, 1814

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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. Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade quote: "Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade quote: "True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none..."
True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them. Marquis de Sade
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace Marquis de Sade
When she's abandoned her moral center and teachings...when she's cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanor...when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing, mewling, bucking, wanton whore for my enjoyment and pleasure.....enticing from within this feral lioness...growling and scratching and biting...taking everything I dish out to her.....at that moment she is never more beautiful to me. Marquis de Sade
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you. Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade quote: "There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise..."
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. Marquis de Sade
Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him? Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade quote: "Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly..."
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others. Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade quote: "The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less..."
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. Marquis de Sade
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. Marquis de Sade
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool. 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
Marquis de Sade quote: "Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced."
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. 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 fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change. Marquis de Sade

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