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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?” Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.” Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.” “What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”
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