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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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