She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower whic…

Marquis de Sade
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ✨ marquis de Sade (1963). De Sade Quartet [four Stories from Cortes Et Fabliaux
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ✨ marquis de Sade (1963). De Sade Quartet [four Stories from Cortes Et Fabliaux

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