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Can we become other than what we are?

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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
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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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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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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