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The 120 Days of Sodom
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"The 120 Days of Sodom" Quotes

"The 120 Days of Sodom" by the Marquis de Sade is a controversial and explicit novel detailing the extreme sexual perversions and acts of cruelty committed by four libertines on a group of abducted victims.

fiction | Published in 2016

Quotes

Nature made us ferocious, we must be ferocious.

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human natureferocity

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from the greatest pains.

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pleasurepain

The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy?

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imaginationjoy

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the more I esteem him.

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esteemimperfection

The only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment.

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lovetorment

Variety, that great safeguard of the mind, is also the great safeguard of the passions.

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varietymindpassion

There is no better way to know death than to link it with some licentious image.

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deathlicentiousness

The man who kills is at least as worthy as the man who gives life.

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lifedeathmorality

The more you stir shit, the more it stinks.

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conflictproblems

The injustice of nature is one of the proofs of her divinity.

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natureinjusticedivinity