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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Man's natural character is to imitate that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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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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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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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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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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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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