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NOVELISTS > novelist > Marquis de Sade
Man's natural character...
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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Source: Letter, 15 Aug. 1781, to his wife from Vincennes prison (published in Selected Letters, no. 9, ed. by Margaret Crosland, 1965).
-- Marquis de Sade, (Jun 2 1740-1814), French novelist; He was the author of erotic writings that gave rise to the term sadism; wrote Justine.