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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
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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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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion
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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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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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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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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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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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