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"The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it."
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.
Quote by -Walter Benjamin
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
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!
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
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.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
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
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
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.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
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.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade