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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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France
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
Comte de Sade
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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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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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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It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
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