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"How lightly you carry the years, mon amie, yes, how very lightly. I think it is because no one has ruled you, not man or god. If only you were a libertine, what a perfect specimen of a woman you would be!"

"The Bible is a pile of dung... The one thoughtful moment is Eve's. Eve, the mother of Juliette. Eve, who never asks 'Why have you forsaken me?' but who walks out of Eden and climbs into bed. Eve, who in full knowledge, fucks and engenders a world."

"'When my pen starts thrashing, it's like fucking a whore in the den of a famished lion. The world is brimming with plaster replicas, and the point is to smash them to bits, to create an upheaval so acute it cannot be anticipated or resisted. I am after Vertigo,' Sade said. 'I am wanting a world in which the Forbidden Fruit is ascendant and rises just as the Old Laws fall-yes!'"