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Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) (French: [maʁki də sad]), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts; in his lifetime some were published under his own name, while others appeared anonymously, of which Sade denied being the author. 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 Christianity. 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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this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts the thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.

Cutting, Days, Fate, Lying, Plans, Pleasures

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Happiness, Imagination, Vivid Imagination, Wild Imagination, Work

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Conflict, Hinder, Law, Protect, Three

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Competition, Desire, Doubt, Legitimate, Passion, Rigorous

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Fiction, Imagination, Literature, Truth

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

Age, Corrupt, Policy, Total War, Utterly, War

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

Adopts, Care, Kinky, Say, Thinking

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

Simple, Imagination, Ordinary, Beauty, Commonplace

I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will; in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.

Ideas, Military, Pondered, Sort, War

Can we become other than what we are?

Become

Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.

Class, Exercised, Hands, Men, Possession, Sex

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Eye, Humanity, Infamy, Merely, Punishment, Rouse

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Happiness, Lies, Lying, Organization, Pursuant

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

Lust, Multiplicity, Powerful, Two, Vehicles

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

Felicity, Imagination, Men, Pleasure, Senses

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

Pain, Kind, Impression, Impressions, Sensation

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Kinky, Literature, Misfortunes, Misfortunes Of Others, Mode, Thought

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.

Beautiful, Hate, Hates, Loves, Men, Produces

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

Kind, Objects, Pleasure, Profanation, Sacrilege, Worship

Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

Behold, God, Heart, Perversions, Smoking, Unique

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