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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
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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Philosopher
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France
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
Comte de Sade
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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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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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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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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
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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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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 requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Can we become other than what we are?
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I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.
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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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