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
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to… — 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
