De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutiona…

Aldous Huxley
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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1937). Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization, p.314, Transaction Publishers
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