It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
May 192014
Nov 272013
The imagination is the spur of delights … all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of th e imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
– Marquis De Sade
Oct 252013
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
– Marquis de Sade
http://www.searchquotes.com/quotation/Happiness_is_ideal,_it_is_the_work_of_the_imagination./5508/
Aug 072013
One must do violence to the object of one’s desire;
when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
– Marquis De Sade
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/417776-one-must-do-violence-to-the-object-of-one-s-desire
Mar 112013
When she’s abandoned her moral center and teachings…when she’s cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanor…when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing, mewling, bucking, wanton whore for my enjoyment and pleasure…..enticing from within this feral lioness…growling and scratching and biting…taking everything I dish out to her…..at that moment she is never more beautiful to me.
– Marquis de Sade
Jan 092013
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
– Marquis De Sade, Juliette p. 317
Nov 282012
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.