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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.
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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Lust's passion will be served it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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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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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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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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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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