Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Edmond De Goncourt
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I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.
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