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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.


Marquis De Sade

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ARNOLD BENNETT It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a...
ARNOLD BENNETT I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the...
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CAITLIN MORAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly ...
COLTON Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally m...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him ...
PAULO COELHO Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in t...
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ERIC CANTONA You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given and received, that is when the...
DAVID LEVITHAN The spirit is beyond pleasure and pain; it’s outside them. They are swings of opposites. The spiri...
BELSEBUUB The hymen of a lady signifies that,there is a world of pleasure in there,however no pain,no pleasure...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
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JOHN STUART MILL It is not only the ratio of pleasure to pain that determines the quality of a life, but also the she...
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OUIDA One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the...
BILL NIGHY The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal ...
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G. K. CHESTERTON Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
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JEFF VOGT The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosop...
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ANUJ SOMANY The purpose of the cyclic nature of pleasure and pain in life is to regain the inner power of the mi...
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ROBERT FULGHUM It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
BLAISE PASCAL It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power
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OLIVER CROMWELL Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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ORSON F. WHITNEY If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate a...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h...
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E. M. CIORAN a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.
JOSTEIN GAARDER The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.
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MARQUIS DE ACERBA Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The idle always have a mind to do something.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assu...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the pri...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, a...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping a...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of lib...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the C...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we s...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clerg...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider&...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate th...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their c...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each p...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Few maxims are true in every respect
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