“Lust is never quite sure.”
About This Quote
The quote in full context reads: "I wandered through various public rooms, glory below, gloom above: for the look of lust always is gloomy; lust is never quite sure— even when the velvety victim is locked up in one’s dungeon— that some rival devil or influential god may still not abolish one’s prepared triumph."
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