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"Juliette is the embodiment of evil - and these 1216 pages detail her debauched career as only the Marquis de Sade could do The greater the crime , the more depraved the debauchery , the more exquisite is Juliette ' s pleasure . Translated by Austryn Wainhouse first complete American edition six volumes in one."--Evergreen Review - Volume 14, Issues 74-79 (1970)


"All living creatures are born isolated; from birth, they have no need one of the other: abstain from tampering with men, leave them in their pristine natural state, refrain from civilizing them, and each will find his own way, his food, his shelter, without his fellow beings' help. The strong will see to their livelihoods wholly unaided; the weak alone may need some assistance; but Nature has given us these weak individuals to be our slaves: they are her gift to us, a sacrifice: their condition is proof thereof; the strong man may hence use the weak as he sees fit; may he not aid them in some instances? No; for if he does, he acts contrary to Nature's will. If he enjoys this inferior object, if he harnesses him into the service of his whims, if he tyrannizes him, oppresses, vexes, sports with him, wears him out, or finally destroys him, then he behaves as Nature's friend; but, I say unto you once again, if, in reverse, he aids the abject, raises the lowly to a level of parity with himself by sharing some of his power or some of his substance or placing some of his authority at the disposal of the mean, then he necessarily disrupts the natural order and perverts the natural law: whence it results that pity, far from being a virtue, becomes a real vice once it leads us to meddle with an inequality prescribed by Nature's laws and lacking which she cannot function properly; and that the ancient philosophers, who behold it as a flaw in the soul, as one of those illnesses one had speedily to cure oneself of, were not in error, since pity's effects are diametrically opposed to those produced by Nature's laws, whereof the fundamental bases are differences, discriminations, inequalities." --Justine, tr. Austryn Wainhouse

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