Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for.... : Quote by Rémy de Gourmont

“ Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise. ”

Rémy de Gourmont
  • From : The Angels of Perversity
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