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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

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Marquis de Sade
Age: 74 †
Born: 1740
Born: June 2
Died: 1814
Died: December 2
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Writer
Paris
France
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
Comte de Sade
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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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