Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, was a French aristocrat, 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 and de Sade denied being their author. 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 June 1740
CountryFrance
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?
I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion