Quotes Tagged With :perversity

In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever....

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it....

Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill....

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the....

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their....

Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions....

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of....