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Marquis de Sade
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Marquis de Sade
Age: 74 †
Born: 1740
Born: June 2
Died: 1814
Died: December 2
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Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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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.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper they are incredibly feeble never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
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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.
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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