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"And her delicacy offended. Who wants a delicate whore! Claude would even ask you to turn your face away when she squatted over the bidet. All wrong! A man, when he's burning up with passion, wants to see things; he wants to see everything, even how they make water."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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