Sade Quotes
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“I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul; but is love an illness to be cured? All I endeavored to oppose to it merely fanned its flames.”
― Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue
― Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue
“A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).”
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“Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....”
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“Is it by chance that the 18th century of France, the century of the "philosophy of enlightenment," did not produce any poets except the Marquis de Sade, who -- despite his participation in the events of this epoch -- expressed the first violent protest against the essential postulates of this period?”
― A Menagerie in Revolt: Selected Writings
― A Menagerie in Revolt: Selected Writings

“After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation, an immense expanse of darkness, which we are now attempting to recover...in our discourse, in our freedom, in our thought.”
― The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
― The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

“If, though full of respect for social conventions and never overstepping the bounds they draw round us, if, nonetheless, it should come to pass that the wicked tread upon flowers, will it not be decided that it is preferable to abandon oneself to the tide rather than to resist it? Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice, and that, in an entirely corrupted age, the safest course is to follow along after the others?”
― Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue
― Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue

“How many times, by God鈥檚 bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to pluck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and replacing it with a lightless void of violence. Ah, that would be a crime! A cosmic crime, dwarfing the petty misdemeanours we are committing here, limited as we are to snuffing out a few meaningless souls”
― The 120 Days of Sodom
― The 120 Days of Sodom

“Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.”
― The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
― The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

“This is what men have done to me. This is what I have learnt from the dangers of associating with them. Is it surprising that, embittered by misfortune and revolted by outrages and injustices, I should in my heart aspire only to avoid all contact with them in the future?”
― Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue
― Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue

“How many times, by God鈥檚 bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to puck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and replacing it with a lightless void of violence. Ah, that would be a crime! A cosmic crime, dwarfing the petty misdemeanours we are committing here, limited as we are to snuffing out a few meaningless souls.”
― The 120 Days of Sodom
― The 120 Days of Sodom
“Sade's ultimate achievement was to make sex the choicest expression of obscene cruelty and absolute, despotic power.”
― The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
― The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
“If Sade's books are the kind which the French inelegantly describe as needing to be read with one hand, it is a sensible precaution to hold a sick-bowl in the other.”
― The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
― The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
“Sade was not the Great Liberator so many have seen in him but the creator of a terrible, horrific, vision which is the death of hope, of history, of civilization itself.”
― The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
― The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

“le langage de Sade est paradoxal parce qu鈥檌l est essentiellement celui d鈥檜ne victime. Il n鈥檡 a que les victimes qui peuvent d茅crire les tortures, les bourreaux emploient n茅cessairement le langage hypocrite de l鈥檕rdre et du pouvoir 茅tablis”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs

“Sade鈥檚 success in our day is explained by the dream that he had in common with contemporary thought: the demand for total freedom, and dehumanization coldly planned by the intelligence. The reduction of man to an object of experiment, the rule that specifies the relation between the will to power and man as an object, the sealed laboratory that is the scene of this monstrous experiment, are lessons which the theoreticians of power will discover again when they come to organizing the age of slavery.
Two centuries ahead of time and on a reduced scale, Sade extolled totalitarian societies in the name of unbridled freedom鈥攚hich, in reality, rebellion does not demand. The history and the tragedy of our times really begin with him. He only believed that a society founded on freedom of crime must coincide with freedom of morals, as though servitude had its limits. Our times have limited themselves to blending, in a curious manner, his dream of a universal republic and his technique of degradation. Finally, what he hated most, legal murder, has availed itself of the discoveries that he wanted to put to the service of instinctive murder. Crime, which he wanted to be the exotic and delicious fruit of unbridled vice, is no more today than the dismal habit of a police-controlled morality. Such are the surprises of literature.”
― The Rebel
Two centuries ahead of time and on a reduced scale, Sade extolled totalitarian societies in the name of unbridled freedom鈥攚hich, in reality, rebellion does not demand. The history and the tragedy of our times really begin with him. He only believed that a society founded on freedom of crime must coincide with freedom of morals, as though servitude had its limits. Our times have limited themselves to blending, in a curious manner, his dream of a universal republic and his technique of degradation. Finally, what he hated most, legal murder, has availed itself of the discoveries that he wanted to put to the service of instinctive murder. Crime, which he wanted to be the exotic and delicious fruit of unbridled vice, is no more today than the dismal habit of a police-controlled morality. Such are the surprises of literature.”
― The Rebel

“It was not murder that fulfilled Sade's erotic nature; it was literature.”
― The Marquis de Sade: An essay by Simone de Beauvoir
― The Marquis de Sade: An essay by Simone de Beauvoir

“Sade's aberrations begin to acquire value when, instead of enduring them as his fixed nature, he elaborates an immense system in order to justify them.”
― Must We Burn Sade?
― Must We Burn Sade?

“He made of his sexuality an ethic; he expressed this ethic in works of literature. It is by this deliberate act that Sade attains a real originality.”
― Must We Burn Sade?
― Must We Burn Sade?

“The "evil" which he had made his refuge vanished when crime was justified by virtue.”
― Must We Burn Sade?
― Must We Burn Sade?

“Dans les Cent Vingt Journ茅es, le libertin se d茅clare excit茅 non par les 芦 objets qui sont ici 禄, mais par l鈥橭bjet qui n鈥檈st pas l脿, c鈥檈st-脿-dire l鈥櫬� id茅e du mal 禄. Or cette id茅e de ce qui n鈥檈st pas, cette id茅e du Non ou de la n茅gation, qui n鈥檈st pas donn茅e ni donnable dans l鈥檈xp茅rience, ne peut 锚tre qu鈥檕bjet de d茅monstration (au sens o霉 le math茅maticien parle de v茅rit茅s qui gardent tout leur sens m锚me si nous dormons, et m锚me si elles n鈥檈xistent pas dans la nature). C鈥檈st pourquoi aussi les h茅ros sadiques d茅sesp猫rent et enragent de voir leurs crimes r茅els si minces par rapport 脿 cette id茅e qu鈥檌ls ne peuvent atteindre que par la toute-puissance du raisonnement. Ils r锚vent d鈥檜n crime universel et impersonnel”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs

“Sade, au moins, n鈥檃 pas montr茅 le vice agr茅able ou riant : il l鈥檃 montr茅 apathique. Et sans doute, de cette apathie d茅coule un plaisir intense ; mais 脿 la limite, ce n鈥檈st plus le plaisir d鈥檜n Moi qui participe 脿 la nature seconde (f没t-ce un moi criminel participant 脿 une nature criminelle), c鈥檈st au contraire le plaisir de nier la nature en moi et hors de moi, et de nier le Moi lui-m锚me. En un mot, c鈥檈st un plaisir de d茅monstration.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs

“And there was one dream common to most young aristocrats of the time. Scions of a declining class which had once possessed
concrete power, but which no longer retained any real hold on the world, they tried to revive symbolically, in the privacy of the bed-chamber, the status for which they were nostalgic: that of the lone and sovereign feudal despot.”
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concrete power, but which no longer retained any real hold on the world, they tried to revive symbolically, in the privacy of the bed-chamber, the status for which they were nostalgic: that of the lone and sovereign feudal despot.”
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“And there was one dream common to most young aristocrats of the time. Scions of a declining class which had once possessed concrete power, but which no longer retained any real hold on the world, they tried to revive symbolically, in the privacy of the bed chamber, the status for which they were nostalgic: that of the lone and sovereign feudal despot.”
― Must We Burn Sade?
― Must We Burn Sade?

“Basit ve sade 艧eyler kalbine 莽ok kolayl谋kla dokunabilirler! E臒er basit ve sade olabilirsen, b眉t眉n kalplere dokunabilirsin!”
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“Basit g眉zeldir 莽眉nk眉 sadedir; basit etkilidir 莽眉nk眉 anla艧谋labilir net bir mesaj verir; basit d芒hidir 莽眉nk眉 minimum bir 莽abayla hayranl谋臒谋m谋z谋 kazan谋r!”
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“To read Sade against the background of our own monstrosity is sometimes the most frightening thing of all. Indeed, this is what makes Sade unreadable for some: not the obscenity or even the sadism, but the sheer hopelessness of his vision of the world and of human nature.”
― SADE
― SADE
“But if Sade's work is to be summed up in one word, this word would not be 'sexual' or 'comic' or even 'sadistic', it would be 'transgressive'. As it systematically transgresses all sexual, social, religious and moral norms, his writing repeatedly and earnestly insists on the exquisite pleasure to be derived from this transgression.”
― SADE
― SADE

“Sade and Genet both achieved freedom by squeezing it out of their characters. If Apollinaire was right to describe Sade, who spent more than half his adult life in prison, as 'the most free spirit that ever lived', this is how he achieved freedom.”
― De Sade: A Critical Biography
― De Sade: A Critical Biography
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