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The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales QUOTES

The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales QUOTES

1 " Sade's ultimate achievement was to make sex the choicest expression of obscene cruelty and absolute, despotic power. "

― Marquis de Sade , The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

2 " 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. "

― Marquis de Sade , The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

3 " 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. "

― Marquis de Sade , The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales