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" They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. "
Marquis de Sade
Lights
Torch
Philosophy
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" Sensual excess drives out pity in man. "
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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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" Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain. "
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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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