"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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The Marquis de Sade, born Donatien Alphonse François in 1740, was a provocative French writer and philosopher whose works challenged societal norms and explored the darker facets of human desire and sexuality. Known for his unapologetic exploration of libertinism, Sade's most infamous texts, such as *Justine* and *120 Days of Sodom*, cemented his legacy as a controversial figure in literature. Despite facing imprisonment and censorship, his bold narratives have inspired a rich discourse on freedom, morality, and the complexities of human nature that resonate to this day.
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"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."
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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."
Marquis de Sade"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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"Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires."
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