Quotes by Marquis de Sade

About Marquis de Sade:

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. He was a proponent of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law. The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name.
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Lector, "alegría, saludo y salud", decían antaño nuestros antepasados cuando acababan un cuento. | Historietas, cuentos y fábulas - Marqués de Sade.

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Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of ...

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Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...

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Franval, who was now absolutely at ease, thought on,y of upsetting others; he behaved in his vindictive, unruly, impetuous way when he was disturbed; he desired his own tranquility again at any price, and in order to obtain it he clumsily adopted the...

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When a man loves a woman, as our old troubadours used to say, even if he has heard or seen something that puts his beloved in a bad light, he should believe neither his ears nor his eyes, he should listen to his heart alone.

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Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew.

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He still had his eyes on me, and it occurred to me that he was thinking the same thing as I was; that I was very underdressed to be here. I needed to leave, and quickly. But I didn't know how to say goodbye...

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Death is the father of all fears. He is as inevitable as he is inescapable. Accept the fact that he will come for you, and eventually you will lose your fear of him, and your fear of everything else along the way.

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To know one's future is the single most destructive way of ending your life before you've lived it." - Altheon (Betrayal- Fey Court Trilogy)

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Don't worry, Evie; my heart isn't broken, only bruised.

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If I had a nickel for every time I'd wished I possessed the power to alter another person's mind, I'd be knee deep in nickels.

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Love is the greatest power of all, and it can never be corrupted.

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I think I've found someone with who I want to spend my life with and that person...Isn't you.

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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

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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 prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

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Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

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It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.

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I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

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Author Bio

  • NameMarquis de Sade
  • DescriptionNovelist, philosopher Sadist
  • AliasesDonatien Alphonse François de Sade
  • BornJune 2, 1740
  • DiedDecember 2, 1814
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Philosopher; Playwright