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Marquis de Sade

Noun

Meaning

French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)

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The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority they resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists as at abstraction. Colin Wilson

Dr. Iwan Bloch, Marquis de Sade: His Life and Work, 1899: "The Marquis de Sade gave evidence in his novels of being a fanatic Satanist." Source: Internet

His contribution to Harlan Ellison 's 1967 science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions was a story, " A Toy for Juliette ", which evoked both Jack the Ripper and the Marquis de Sade in a time-travel story. Source: Internet

He might want to add a reading course in the Marquis de Sade and Wilhelm Reich. Source: Internet

I was told it was about the Marquis de Sade. Source: Internet

Paulhan admired the Marquis de Sade 's writing and told Desclos that a woman could not write in a similar fashion. Source: Internet

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