• Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

    Marquis de Sade: Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
    Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr