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I want to be the victim of his errors.

Marquis de Sade

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Marquis de Sade
Age: 74 †
Born: 1740
Born: June 2
Died: 1814
Died: December 2
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
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Paris
France
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
Comte de Sade
marquis de Sade
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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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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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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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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
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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 ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
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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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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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