Nothing is in fact more alien to the sadist than the wish to convince, to persuade […] He is interested in something quite different, namely to demonstrate that reasoning itself is a form of violence, and that he is on the side of violence, however calm and logical he may be.

Coldness & Cruelty

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There is a kind of mysticism in perversion: the greater the renunciation, the greater and the more secure the gains […] pleasure ceases to motivate the will and is abjured, disavowed, "renounced," the better to be recovered as a reward or consequence, and as a law.