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Marquis de Sade

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Marquis de Sade

“All universal moral principles are idle fancies.”

- Marquis de Sade

Source/Notes: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings (1987 edition), Grove Pr - ISBN: 9780802130129

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“All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.”

- Marquis de Sade

Source/Notes: Juliette (2007 edition), Grove Press - ISBN: 9780802199027

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“Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.”

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“Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?”

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“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.”

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“Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.”

- Marquis de Sade

Source/Notes: Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings (2007 edition), Grove Press - ISBN: 9780802199010

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“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.”

- Marquis de Sade

Source/Notes: The Crimes of Love: 3 Novellas (1993 edition), Bantam Classics - ISBN: 9780553214246

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“Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.”

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“I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”

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“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”

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“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”

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“It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.”

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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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“Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.”

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