Juliette

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However, dear Juliette, in fating me to inhabit the cloister all my life long, heaven also had the kindness to provide me with only a mediocre desire for any sort of pleasure other than those this sanctified place plentifully affords me; that which women may mutually procure one another is so delicious that my aspirations do not go very much farther. It is a novella (187 pages) with relatively little of the obscenity that characterized his later writing, as it was written in the classical style (which was fashionable at the time), with much verbose and metaphorical description. I have no need to say that among recluse women the thirst for the voluptuous is the sole motive for close friendship: they are attached one to the other, not by virtue, but by fucking: one is pleased by her who soaks one at sight, one becomes the intimate of her by whom one is frigged. It hardly matters that her characters are often inarticulate: she has the skill to make their faces speak fathomless volumes. Various prisons and an insane asylum incarcerated the aristocrat for 32 years of his life: ten years in the Bastile, another year elsewhere in Paris, a month in Conciergerie, two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, three years in Bicêtre, a year in Sainte-Pélagie, and 13 years in the Charenton asylum.

Refer yourself again and again to the great theses of Spinoza, of Vanini, of the author of Le Systéme de la Nature. Familiar material—a newly divorced woman navigating the choppy waters of single parenthood—gets sensitive treatment in this subtle novel by the author of Shelter Me. Fay’s winsome debut comes to life in this audio adaptation thanks to the absorbing narration of Marguerite Gavin. Very slight fade line to the bottom edge of the front cover, Otherwise book is a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good to Near Fine condition. Wainhouse later revised this translation for publication in the United States by Grove Press (1965).

How very fortunate for society that I restrict myself to this dilute form of evil-doing: oh, what with my proclivities and principles, I could perhaps adopt another which might easily prove more of a nuisance to the world. And so conscience is purely and simply the construction either of the prejudices that are insinuated into us or of the ethical principles we ourselves devise in our own behalf. For feelings of guilt, once again, are nought but the distillations, the effluvia of a prejudice produced by fear of what may befall us for having done any conceivable kind of thing forbidden for who knows what vague or flimsy reason. Well, this cure is quite as sweet as it is sure, for it consists simply in reiterating the deeds that have made us remorseful, in repeating them so often that the habit either of committing these deeds or of getting away scot free with them completely undermines every possibility of feeling badly about them.

To put into perspective how disturbing this story is, when Napoléon Bonaparte read it, he had de Sade arrested and imprisoned for the rest of his life. Brother–Sister Incest: Clairwil is married to her brother, Borchamps, doubling as Unholy Matrimony and Villainous Incest.A nun who held me in especially high esteem, being disturbed by my rapport with the Abbess, warned me that she was a doomed woman. I am jaded and I require to be dealt with stoutly: I want to melt absolutely into fuck, fuck I want to become, if I am able I want to discharge twenty times over.

Above all, beware of religion, nothing is more apt to lure you astray than religion’s baneful insinuations. Welcome to /r/literature, a community for deeper discussions of plays, poetry, short stories, and novels. All but two volumes bear a small, attractive Dutch bookplate; three have a second, smaller, attractive one.This final version, La Nouvelle Justine, departed from the first-person narrative of the previous two versions, and included around 100 engravings. This is not only extremely convenient; it’s intimately related to how perfectly fictitious everything in Sade’s universe is designed to be. She becomes the most prestigious, sought-after prostitute among the French Aristocracy, and eventually falls in love with three elites, Saint-Fond, Noirceuil, and Clairwel, who collectively corrupt her into a murderous, nymphomaniacal noblewoman that goes on a decade-long misadventure of debauchery and degeneracy.

Euphrosine, the young lady in whose footsteps I was eager to follow and who, dwelling close by my own parents’ home, had fled her father’s household to fling herself into libertinage, had been my boon companion at Panthemont.Grown as staunch and doughty as I in your thinking, you’ll soon be imitating me in action, and like myself, you’ll never more pronounce this loathsome God’s name save with revulsion and in hateful blasphemy. Hence, in the light of the principles we have devised for our own individual use, we may equally well have cause to repent at having done either too much evil, or too little, or none.