"Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product……" — Marquis de Sade
"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 seeing and feeling."
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135 Quotes by Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade has 135 quotes on this site.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving…
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to…
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught…
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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican…
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece…
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe…
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre…
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Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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