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.
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?
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
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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.