black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

Marquis de Sade

Related Topics

Assemble Concentrated Glass Immediate Magnifying Passion Point Ray Resemble Single Way

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Allow Already Delicate Different Flower Lover Nevertheless Pluck Rose Sometimes
My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Being Contradict Inner Made Reflection Result Think Way Wish
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Abstraction Being Entirely Feel Happiness Imagination Moved Product Spend Way
Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Damage Darken Event Figure Charm Hang Health Husband Mood Pregnancy Uncertainty
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Accordance Always Imagination Pleasure Regulate Sense
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Bound Dirtier Dirty Element Give More Pleasurable Pleasure
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 all his caprices.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Attain Caprice Fact Felicity Heed Human Imagination Lie Lose Sight Think
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Debauchery Excite Lust Pleasure Soul
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Creature Delicate Delight Imagination Moment Out Pleasure Resist Single Whole World
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Application Conflict Contradiction Forge Interest Law Perpetual Personal Universal
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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Further God Inspire Perversion Plunge Present Satan Smoke Something Unique
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong
My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Consider Existence Made Manner Power Reflection Straightforward Think
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Cause Misfortune Mode Other Through
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Apparent Capable Certain Cruel Extreme Feeling Length Rather Seem Soul Strong Unconcern

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes