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It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.

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Marquis de Sade
Age: 74 †
Born: 1740
Born: June 2
Died: 1814
Died: December 2
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Writer
Paris
France
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
Comte de Sade
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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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.
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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