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Marquis de Sade

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

Women

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The author argues that pain is a clear and trustworthy feeling because it is real and undeniable, unlike pleasure, which he claims women often pretend to feel but rarely actually do. He suggests that women's expressions of pleasure are unreliable and deceptive compared to the certainty of pain.

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