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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.
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
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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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.
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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
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No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Man's natural character is to imitate that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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