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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Source: Comte de Bressac, in Justine, ou les Malheurs de la Vertu (1791; 1991, p. 520).
-- 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.

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