Emre

“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
― Marquis de Sade

“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”
― Marquis de Sade

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales