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The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion
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
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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 is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.
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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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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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