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“Your orders are charming; your manner of giving them still more delightful; you would make tyranny itself adored.”
― Choderlos de Laclos, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"
Art: Illustrations of Poe's Poems, Edmund Dulac (1882 - 1953), French British
Ukraine in the art of Mykola Pymonenko (9 March 1862 — 26 March 1912), Ukrainian
"Wit and rapture alternated between us and became the common pulse of our united life and we embraced each other with as much wantonness as religion."
- Friedrich Schlegel
Blossoming Anatomy in the art of Juan Gatti (1950), Argentinean
"The chief characteristic of the goddess in her crescent phase is that she is a virgin. Her instinct is not used to capture or possess the man whom she attracts. (...) She remains a virgin even while being a goddess of love."
- Esther Harding, "Women's Mysteries"