It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. ✨ Marquis de Sade…

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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. ✨ Marquis de Sade Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel, Library of Alexandria
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women. ✨ marquis de Sade (1927). Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

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