Madman and Genius

Jamison 2022-04-22 07:01:34

Which of the philosophical books of the Enlightenment thinkers popular in eighteenth-century France had a greater impact on the French Revolution than the "obscene" novels of the time? This question is, of course, left to scholars to examine and study. In fact, the question itself explains the problem.
They have seen the devil, they have seen hell. It is the demon of thought, the singing of the free soul. Sexual liberation has always been the vanguard of ideological liberation, and history is the alternation of asceticism and indulgence.
Is Sade an angel sent to the world by God?



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  • Monserrate 2021-12-22 08:01:38

    Father, my god, priest, the sacred, awe-inspiring ascetic, really the most suitable carrier of lustful lust. The preference for this theme and the perfect casting and performance of this film made me completely fall into this film.

  • Claudie 2022-03-23 09:02:15

    Are all art people like that?

Quills quotes

  • Marquis de Sade: [voiceover, as Coulmier writes] Beloved reader, I leave you now with a tale penned by the Abbe du Coulmier, a man who found freedom, in the most unlikeliest of places: at the bottom of an inkwell, on the tip of a quill. However, be forewarned, it's plot is blood-soaked, it's characters depraved, and it's themes... unwholesome at best. But in order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the full measure of man. So come... I Dare you... Turn the page...

  • Coulmier: There are certain things... feelings... we must not voice.

    Madeleine: Why?

    Coulmier: They incite us to act on what we should not... cannot.