Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be. . but it all comes down to the same thing in the … - Remy de Gourmont

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Remy de Gourmont

Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be. . but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?

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