You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.