“It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. And as, every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to her attended by evil thoughts such as, ordinarily, had no place in her virtuous mind, she came at length to see in pleasure itself something diabolical, to identify it with Evil.”
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“A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.”
“You can't have a women's body without having her heart, mind and soul if only momentarily.”