Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior? — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
“To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism,… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
