“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”
― The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
― The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”
― Quills
― Quills
“Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.”
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
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