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“If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.”
― Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom: A Classic of Extreme French Literature

tags: dirty, lust, sex

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“I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

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“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

tags: jungism, personhood, shadow-self

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“I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

tags: love

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“Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace”
― D.A.F. Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

tags: beauty, extraordinary, ugliness

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