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Imagination Quotes by Marquis de Sade
- Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
- Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
- 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…
- Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
- 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…
- How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate…
- 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…
- 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…
- Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of…
More Imagination Quotes
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what… — Francis Bacon
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
- The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard
- I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana