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Ambrosio's Unfamilar Stock Quotes
We all enter this world the same way: naked, screaming, soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there
- Dana Gould
To play needs much work. But when we experience the work as play, then it is not work anymore.
- Peter Brook
Love well, whip well.
- Benjamin Franklin
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
- Alfred Hitchcock
The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain.
- Byron
Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them.
- Carl Jung
Zen Koan: "A thorn pricks you: It tells us the void is empty."
There are no gains without pains.
- Benjamin Franklin
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
- Former Vice President Dan Quayle
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- M. Kathleen Casey
Think of three Things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.
- Marquis de Sade
The only abnormality is the inability to love.
- Anais Nin
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
- Benjamin Franklin
Most welcome, bondage, for thou art a way, I think, to liberty.
- Shakespeare
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
- Kahlil Gibran
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Frank Herbert
The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
- Marquis de Sade
There's nothing either good or bad ... but thinking makes it so!
- Shakespeare
There is no terror in the bang ... only in the anticipation of it.
- Alfred Hitchock
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
- Oscar Wilde
Related Reading
Literature, poetry, and film in a sadomasocistic context.
- Poetry by the Masters: Classic poetry on BDSM themes.
- Unfamilar Stock Quotes
- Quotes on Liberty
- About Larry Townsend
- About Drummer Magazine
- About Jack Fritscher, PhD
- Greenery Press, Janet Hardey, and Jay Wiseman
- About the POWERotics Foundation and Hans Meijer
- Relevant Films on DVD and for Streaming
- The Gor Novels
- What is Gor? by Silk
- Golfers of Gor (parody)
- House Plants of Gor (parody)
- The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana (in the "Miscellaneous Pages" section.)
- The Monk by M. G. Lewis
- Hanns Heinz Ewers: About the late German author of Decadent literature, with a sample of his work.
- The Leather History Timeline by Tony DeBlase and others