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ButterflyEffect · 3539 days ago · link · · parent · post: 13th Quote-a-rama Thread's Dead Baby, Thread's Dead
'Get the woman,' he whispered to the Baron, laughing impudently as he did so, 'and you'll sell the world!'Beneath the very charm of his gallantry, Mouret thus allowed the brutality of a Jew selling Woman by the pound to show through; he was building a temple to Woman, making a legion of shop assistants burn incense before her, creating the rites of a new cult; he thought only of her, ceaselessly trying to imagine even greater enticements; and, behind her back, when he had emptied her purse and wrecked her nerves, he was full of the secret scorn of a man to whom a mistress had just been stupid enough to yield.