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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.
Marquis de Sade
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Marquis de Sade
Age: 74 †
Born: 1740
Born: June 2
Died: 1814
Died: December 2
Novelist
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France
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
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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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Lust's passion will be served it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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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