Quotation by

Charles Baudelaire

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

Charles Baudelaire

Men

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Baudelaire suggests that the intense pleasure of love comes from the awareness that it involves doing something morally wrong or forbidden. He believes that people instinctively understand from a young age that breaking rules or engaging in "evil" brings the greatest physical and emotional enjoyment.

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