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Memorable Quotations from The Marquis de Sade

Author The Marquis de Sade
Publisher Jim Dell
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PublisherJim Dell
ISBN / ASINB00789SLD4
ISBN-13978B00789SLD2
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷

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Donatien Alphonse François, comte de Sade (1740–1814) was a French author known as The Marquis de Sade. Charged with several sexual offenses, he spent 27 years in prisons or asylums, writing lewd romances, including Justine (1791). He hypothesized that since sexual deviation and criminal acts exist in nature they are natural; this notion foreshadowed modern psychological thought. Sadism, the infliction of pain to achieve sexual pleasure, is named for him.