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Did Sade have any influence on painting or sculpture? or other visual arts?

Literally me

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>>22591583
Is there anyone who is honest with themselves, man or woman, who does not like rape?

>“Even the so-called intellectuals believe his pronounce-ments. Since he said so, it must be so. If there were real virtue in the world, as you say there is, would it survive upon such absurd means; would it be through the mouth of such rascals that it would show itself? Could not the mover of the stars in heaven influence men’s hearts itself; could it not engrave in the center of heaven the laws that would please all men from one corner of the earth to the other? Would your precious virtue indicate his desires only to this idol of yours, this vilest menial and craftiest rogue living in an ignored corner of Asia? No, Therese, I would rather die a thousand times than fall for such tripe!"

>"Oh, sirl" Justine replied, “would you deprive an unfortunate girl of her one sweet hope; would you crush within her heart her one consolation? I firmly believe that blows levelled at virtue are mostly due to the effects of lust and dissipation. How can I sacrifice the dearest flower of my mind, the dearest pearl of my heart to such blasphemies, to such horrible sophism"

This isn't a dig at Nietzsche btw; merely a reminder that even the good g*rmoid philolzolzolozlsophers ripped off the french.

Im anthony g and hes my hero and inspratuono

Is there any brilliant author who goes to great lengths to defend the art of gooning?

>>22316412
Sade was a thespian at heart and it shows. I agree with OP that his prose can come off as wooden in his novels, but I really enjoyed Philosophy in the Boudoir, especially the long diatribe inserted near the end (which I found to be the most engrossing part).
Sade is an enigma because it's almost impossible to determine what his actual beliefs are, and how much is him being an edgelord troll. Love him or hate him, there's no one like him and channers who criticize him as boring are posturing.

>>22311646
He has 97 mental illnesses and is banned from most public spaces

Reminder: physiognomy deniers are all coping uggos with high forehead envy

My boy

>>22169869
OT but I hate that most artistic interpretations try to portray him as some hideous guy. He was charming and handsome by all accounts and was slamming puss and (buss) left and right for decades. Muh "bad = ugly" dichotomy of thought

>>22010319
Marquis de Sade was probably the most humane man in the entire French Revolution. It's such a funny parable on human nature. The sexual sadist who constructs elaborate universes of torture in his head cannot bring himself to hurt anyone in real life, and actually puts his own life at risk by exonerating the people whose cases he tried and worked to save the very people who had been persecuting him for decades. Meanwhile the 'virtuous' 'altruistic' revolutionaries unleashed an orgy of hatred and bloodshed the likes of which had never been seen before.

It's not about reading, it's a lifestyle.

Don't know if this is related to the thread, but if de Sade had written in the 21st Century, he would definetly have included a scene where a doctor drugs a random patient to perform a sex reassignment surgery on him, and then fucking him.

>solves women

>>21940293
>What is the anti-Bible?
Justine, or the 120 Days of Sodom, or any other work by Sade. The whole point of his writing is to reveal God using negative space, by describing a world without God, a vision of hell, and the essence of religion is in rejecting his villains' philosophy when you are put in their shoes, all the rest is corollaries.

Sade is the best text for understanding religious faith, he forces you to go to a point where no human being can actually follow and remain sane, and at this point, God becomes obvious.

three slices of cheese, two slices of salami, one slice of mortadella and half a bottle of white whine.

What are /lit/ approved breakfasts that boost writing gains?

has there been a valid argument against hedonism?

Are amateur online erotica are the closest thing to Libertine literature?

What the FUCK was his problem?

He constituted what Nietzsche always wanted to be, but was too much of an incel to go through with it.

Say what you want about Sade, but he was based,Nietzsche, on the other hand, not so much.