I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
Marquis de SadeMurder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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