User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/literary/french/Juliette

Quotes
Delbène, the Mother Superior, on female promiscuity:

"Only in these multiple and iterated extravagances does a girl’s true virtue reside; the more she gives herself, the more lovable she is; the more she fucks, the more happiness she distributes."

"Oh, my companions, I say unto you : Fuck! you were born to fuck. To be fucked Nature created you; let bawl the mad, let blither and snivel the judges, let whine and gripe the hypocrites; they have their own reasons for condemning those delicious heats…"

"Myriad voices will answer you in chorus : you will be exhorted to fuck, because Nature would that you fuck, and it is a crime against Nature not to fuck. Do not be intimidated by that empty epithet whore, an idiotic slut is she who declines the glory of that title…"

"Yes, I’d have it known, inscribed, permanently decided that I’m a whore; I’d like to forswear, rend this veil, break these disgraceful oaths which prevent me from prostituting myself publicly, from soiling myself like the lowest of the low. I confess to you that I’m capable of envying the fate of those heavenly creatures who ornament street corners and slake the filthy lust of whoever strolls by : they squat in vile degradation, in ordures and horror do they wallow…"

The Abbe on siring bastards:

"No, he has no more duties to observe toward a foetus than he would toward something deposited by an insect and which some shit he dropped at the foot of a tree caused to hatch several days later."

The wealthy libertine Dorval on theft:

"…every American is much addicted to theft; nothing is more widespread in Africa; beyond the Alps it is hardly discouraged."

"Nothing more readily conceivable than theft as debauch : it occasions the indispensable shock upon the nervous system and thence is born the inflammation which determines the lubricious mood."

Noirceuil on the foolishness of labeling some behaviors as crimes:

"…were I to take ship or board the mail-coach I could, for having performed one and the same deed, find myself condemned to death on Sunday morning in Paris and a public hero on Saturday of the same week in some land on the frontiers of Asia or on the coasts of Africa."

"There is no act, however awful, however atrocious, however infamous you like or can imagine it, which we cannot perform every time we sense the urge, why! which we have the right not to commit, since Nature puts the idea in our heads…"