Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techni…

Marquis de Sade
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Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?
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Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. ✨ marquis de Sade (1988). Juliette … ▶
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them. ✨ The 120 days of Sodom and other writings.
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.
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. ✨ marquis de Sade (1988). Juliette, Grove Press
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. ✨ Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). The 120 days of Sodom and … ▶

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

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