Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
— Marquis de Sade Contemporary

Writer, extreme libertine philosophy

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From his writings, likely dialogue from a character in 'Philosophy in the Bedroom' or 'Juliette'

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1795 (approx.)

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