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122 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1870

"sensuality and cheerful love ... is a woman's nature..."
"She must give herself to whatever or whomever she loves and must love anything that pleases her..."
"On the whole, you northerners take love too earnestly, too seriously. You talk about duties, when all that should count is pleasure."
"I cannot deny that nothing excites a man more than the sight of a beautiful, voluptuous, and cruel female despot who capriciously changes her favourites, reckless and rollicking."
"Nothing can so readily fan my passion as the tyranny, the cruelty, and, above all, the infidelity of a beautiful woman."
"I am good if I am treated earnestly and reasonably. But if one submits to me too deeply, then I become arrogant."
"I now sensed that there are such things as beauty without thorns and sensuality without torment."