"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author."
-Marquis de Sade
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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?“
-Marquis de Sade
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