Marquis de Sade Quotes
Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.
Citations
Sade, Marquis de. Letters from Prison. Translated by Richard Seaver, Harper & Row, 1989.
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Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer famous for his libertine sexuality. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts. He was a proponent of absolute freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion, or law. The words sadism and sadist are derived in reference to the works of fiction he wrote which portrayed numerous acts of sexual cruelty.