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“The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest.”
― Philosophy in the Boudoir
― Philosophy in the Boudoir
“There are no more than two or three crimes to commit in the world,’ said Curval. ‘Once those are done there is no more to be said – what remains is inferior and one no longer feels a thing. How many times, good God, have I not wished it were possible to attack the sun, to deprive the universe of it, or to use it to set the world ablaze – those would be crimes indeed, and not the little excesses in which we indulge, which do no more than metamorphose, in the course of a year, a dozen creatures into clods of earth.”
― The 120 Days of Sodom: A Classic of Extreme French Literature
― The 120 Days of Sodom: A Classic of Extreme French Literature
“From the two things one: either my husband is a brutal, jealous one, or he’s a refined man; in the first hypothesis, the best I can do is to revenge myself for his conduct; in the second, I would know not to burden myself; since I taste of pleasures, he’ll be happy for it if he’s honest: there’s not a refined man who doesn’t take pleasure at the spectacle of the happiness of the person he adores.”
― Philosophy in the Boudoir
― Philosophy in the Boudoir
“The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice suffices to cool off the imagination. This whimsical part of the mind is so unbridled as to be uncontrollable. Its greatest triumphs, its most eminent delights consist in smashing all the restraints that oppose it. Imagination is the enemy of all norms, the idolater of all disorder and of all that bears the color of crime.”
― Philosophy in the Boudoir
― Philosophy in the Boudoir
“Women are not made for one single man; 'tis for men at large Nature created them.”
― Philosophy in the Boudoir
― Philosophy in the Boudoir
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