Marquis de Sade:

Nature has made us perverse, and we are only following her dictates.

— Marquis de Sade Contemporary

Writer, extreme libertine philosophy

Context

Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

Date / Period

1782

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33716/33716-h/33716-h.htm

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