#sadism

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

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#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. ↗

— Adam Johnson

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#ate #bark #bombarded #day #elite

Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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#sadism #sex #humor