“Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.” — Philippe Lejeune Copy Share Image
“A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).” — Philippe Lejeune Copy Share Image
“Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist” — Philippe Lejeune Copy Share Image
“However, in fetishism the desired object is displaced; and in this context (“The Apparition” by Guy De Maupassant) it is the desiring object, so… — Philippe Lejeune Copy Share Image
“Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such… — Philippe Lejeune Copy Share Image
