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"Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust." -- Marquis De Sade

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"All universal moral principles are idle fancies.""All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.""Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.""Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?""Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.""Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.""Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.""Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.""I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.""In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.""It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.""It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.""Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.""Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.""Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.""My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!""Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.""Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.""Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.""No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.""One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.""One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.""Religions are the cradles of despotism.""Sensual excess drives out pity in man."""Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.""She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.""So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.""Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.""The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.""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?""The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.""The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.""The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.""There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.""There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.""They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.""'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.""To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.""Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.""What is more immoral than war?""Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.""Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced."

Total Books: 138

2012 - The Mystified Magistrate and Other Tales (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781611455120
ISBN-10: 161145512X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

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2011 - Gothic Tales of the Marquis De Sade (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780720613582
ISBN-10: 0720613582
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 0/5 Stars.

2011 - Virtue [Hesperus Classics] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781843911913
ISBN-10: 1843911914

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2010 - Justine [Perennial Forbidden Classics] (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780007300440
ISBN-10: 0007300441
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 2.5/5 Stars.

2009 - Florville and Courval (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781604594195
ISBN-10: 1604594195

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2009 - Justine or 'good Conduct Well Chastised' (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781604594171
ISBN-10: 1604594179
Genre: Literature & Fiction

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2009 - The 120 Days of Sodom (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781604594188
ISBN-10: 1604594187

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2008 - The Crimes of Love [Oxford World's Classics] (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780199539987
ISBN-10: 0199539987
Genre: Literature & Fiction

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2008 - The Misfortunes of VIrtue and Other Early Tales [Oxford World's Classics] (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780199540426
ISBN-10: 019954042X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 0/5 Stars.

2008 - Three By Marquis De Sade Justine the 120 Days of Sodom Florville and Courval (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781604594201
ISBN-10: 1604594209
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 0/5 Stars.

2007 - The 120 Days of Sodom Volume 2 [EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition] (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781427011367
ISBN-10: 1427011362

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2007 - The 120 Days of Sodom Volume 1 of 2 Volume 1 [EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781554806010
ISBN-10: 1554806011

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2007 - Betrayal [Hesperus Classics] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781843911364
ISBN-10: 1843911361
Genre: Literature & Fiction

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2006 - The 120 Days of Sodom Volume I (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781425027032
ISBN-10: 1425027032

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2006 - The 120 Days of Sodom Volume II (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781425027049
ISBN-10: 1425027040

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2006 - Philosophy in the Boudoir or the Immoral Mentors [Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780143039013
ISBN-10: 0143039016
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Currently 0/5 Stars.

2006 - Justine or Good Conduct Well Chastised (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780954996673
ISBN-10: 0954996674
Genre: Literature & Fiction

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2005 - Philosophy in the Boudoir [Creation Classics] (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781840681031
ISBN-10: 1840681039
Genre: Literature & Fiction