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• Perversity is the muse of modern literature. — Susan Sontag
• Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did… — Irenaeus of Lyons
• There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity. — Octave Mirbeau
• Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which… — Clifford D. Simak
• Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance -- — Robert A. Heinlein
• I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity… — Russell Kirk
• To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it. — William James
• Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman
• Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence. — Dave Hickey
• I could be mistaken, but I believe the majority of artists are perverts, and that inspiration springs from the seat of perversity;… — James Jean
• Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,… — Marcel Proust

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