Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst uglin…

Marquis de Sade
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace ✨ Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). The 120 days of Sodom and other writings, Grove Pr
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