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Marquis de Sade (43)

Birth:	2nd June, 1740
Death:	2nd December, 1814
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Critic, Philosopher, Poet, Politician, Writer

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• Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

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• Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

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• What is more immoral than war?

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• Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

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• Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

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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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• ‘Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

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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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• There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

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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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• 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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• The primary and most beautiful of Nature’s qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

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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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• The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

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• The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

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• Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

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• So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

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• She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

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• “S*x” 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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• Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

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