"Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by……" — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

"Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss..."

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come… — Felix Dennis
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