Marquis de Sade Quotes
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
Sade, Marquis de. Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings. Translated by Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse, Grove Press, 1965.
If American fighting men were not killed in the war, they returned to the United States at Hoboken, New Jersey where the troop ships debarked. If the solder didn’t return through Hoboken the assumption was his destination was one of the other two alternatives. It is believed that Cook did not originate the phrase which had circulated in the oral military scuttlebutt of the day. He was the first to write it.
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.
