Venus in Furs
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Read between July 3 - July 4, 2018
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However, it is well to remember that nature is neither good nor bad, neither altruistic nor egoistic, and that it operates through the human psyche as well as through crystals and plants and animals with the same inexorable laws.
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As soon as you wish to be natural, you become common.
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It is only man's egoism which wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.
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"I am never angry at anything that is natural—"
"The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.