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Quotes by Marquis De Sade
- 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?
- The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
- 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.
- There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
- 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.
- To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
- Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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