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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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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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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
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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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The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
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