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“Sade never got into the habit of concerning himself with what other people were thinking and feeling. As with Genet, the soil in which perversion grew was habitual solitude and constant frustration of the need to feel loved.”

Feelings Solitude De Sade Genet

Book:De Sade: A Critical Biography

Source: De Sade: A Critical Biography

“Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a man but the curious product of misfortune, something to which laws could not be applied. I had exceeded the bounds of indecency.”

Misfortune Thief Indecency Jean Genet

Book:The thief's journal

Source: The thief's journal

“Je hasarde une explication : écrire c'est le dernier recours quand on a trahi.”

éCrire Trahison Genet Explication Hasarder Recours

Author:Jean Genet

“Sade and Genet both achieved freedom by squeezing it out of their characters. If Apollinaire was right to describe Sade, who spent more than half his adult life in prison, as 'the most free spirit that ever lived', this is how he achieved freedom.”

Freedom Sade Genet Apollinaire

Book:De Sade: A Critical Biography

Source: De Sade: A Critical Biography