"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."
-Marquis de Sade
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"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."
-Marquis de Sade
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"Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction."
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"The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success."
-Marquis de Sade
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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
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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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"All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side."
-George Wald
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"War is not civilized."
-Talib Kweli
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"The concept of war crimes is an American invention."
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"Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war."
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"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."
-George Wald
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