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For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
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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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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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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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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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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