Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life. - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments do, that's what the religions do. They protect the interests of that industrial ruling class.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

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You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

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Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

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Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us. It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and ask not whither?

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You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

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Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

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She made a snorting noise, astonishingly human for a ghost. " I'ardly like to tell you this, Nephilim, but if you want a girl to 'ate you, there's easy enough ways of making it 'appen. You don't need my help with the poor thing. " And with that, she vanished, spinning away into the mists among the graves. Will, looking after her, sighed. "Not for her," he said, under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, "for me. . . " and he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.

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