black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Crime Debauchery Excite Lust Pleasure Soul

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Barbarous Creator Destructive God Inconsistent Infamous Repent Today World
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
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADE

God Hath Herself Nature Need Sufficient Wise
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Allow Appetite Drink Eat False Important Modesty Ought Restrain Satisfy Sex
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age Best Corrupt Other Policy Utterly
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Arrive Pain Pleasure Way
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Beyond Border Entice Let Principle Share Zeal
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
At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age All Apparent Century Connection Despotism Every Infinitely Religion Time
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Batten Consume Immolate Lamb Strong Upon Victim Weal Wolves
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Corrupt Delicious Heart Religion Semblance Stifie Virtue Young
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Creaturem Thrown Decreed Flock Half Mankind Miserable Moment Mud Pile Prosecutor Surface
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
The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Arratly Bizzare Conflict Every Extraordinary Human Institution Law Most Sem

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes