Marquis de Sade:

Ah, a little of this, a little of that, it's my life's happiness, you know. I've not much patience with mild or tidy pleasures.

— Marquis de Sade Contemporary

Writer, extreme libertine philosophy

From 'The 120 Days of Sodom'

1785

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