There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Marquis de Sade
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About Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French writer, libertine, political activist, and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy, and pornography. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts. Some of these were published under his own name during his lifetime, but most appeared anonymously or posthumously.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Marquis de Sade'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.