Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
Writer, extreme libertine philosophy
From his writings, likely dialogue from a character in 'Philosophy in the Bedroom' or 'Juliette'
1795 (approx.)
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