There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanat…

Marquis de Sade
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. ✨ Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). The 120 days of Sodom and other writings, Grove Pr
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