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The imagination is the spur of delights...all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Marquis de Sade, French author

1740-1814

Belmor, in L'Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prosperites du Vice, pt. 3 (1797)

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