Marquis de Sade
Quotations
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“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.” -Marquis de Sade
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“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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“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.” -Marquis de Sade
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“The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.” -Marquis de Sade
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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.” -Marquis de Sade
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“Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.” -Marquis de Sade
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“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.” -Marquis de Sade
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“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.” -Marquis de Sade
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“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
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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.” -Marquis de Sade
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“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.” -Marquis de Sade
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“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.” -Marquis de Sade
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“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.” -Marquis de Sade
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“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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“‘Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.” -Marquis de Sade
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