Quotes

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Young Joe: If I asked you to take my virginity, would that be a problem? Jerôme: No, I don't see a problem.

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Joe: It's my own fault. I'm just a bad human being. Seligman: I've never met a "bad human being." Joe: Well, you have now.

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Seligman: I'm Seligman. Joe: What a fucking ridiculous name.

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Seligman: Love is blind. Joe: No, no, no. It's worse. Love distort things. Or even worse, love is something you never asked for. The erotic was something that I ask for or even demanded of men. But this idiotic love... I felt humiliated by it. And all the dishonesty that follows. Joe: The erotic is about saying yes. Love appeals to lowest instincts, wrapped up in lies. How do you say yes when you mean no? And vice-versa. I'm ashamed of what I became. But it was beyond my control.

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Joe: Nobody knew his secret. Most probably not even himself. He sat there with his shame. I suppose I sucked him off as a kind of apology. Seligman: That's unbelievable! Joe: Listen to me. This is a man who had succeeded in repressing his own desire, who had never before given into it right up until I forced it out. He had lived a life full of denial and had never hurt a soul. I think that's laudable. Seligman: No matter how much I try, I can't find anything laudable in pedophilia. Joe: That's because you think about the, perhaps 5% who actually hurt children. The remaining 95% never live out their fantasies. Think about their suffering. Sexuality is the strongest force in human beings. To be born with a forbidden sexuality must be agonizing. The pedophile who manages to get through life with the shame of his desire, while never acting on it, deserves a bloody medal.

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Dear everyone, don't think it's been easy, but I understand now that we're not and never will be alike. I'm not like you, who fucks to be validated and might just as well give up putting cocks inside of you. You already got your bloody kick a long time ago when it turned out that someone was even bothered to fuck you. And I'm not like you. Eat yourself to death if you want. I have no pity for you. All you want is to be filled up and whether it's by a man or by tons of disgusting slop makes no difference because it's all just a pathetic attempt at filling out your own resounding emptiness and hiding your ridiculous egocentric self-loathing. And I'm definitely not like you. That empathy you claim is a lie because all you are is society's morality police whose duty is to erase my obscenity from the surface of the Earth so that the bourgeoisie won't feel sick. I'm not like you. I am a nymphomaniac and I love myself for being one, but above all, I love my cunt and my filthy, dirty lust.

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Joe: By the way, I can assure you that women who claim that negroes don't turn them on, are lying. Seligman: So do they satisfy you, those negroes? Joe: No, but they showed me there was a world far from mine I had to explore. And there perhaps on the other side get my life back.

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Joe: I seem to remember that the systematic approach to the crucifixion is of a violent and not to say sadistic nature. Seligman: Oh yes, the passion of Christ is full of systematic violence... The Via Dolorosa, the nine stations of the cross and the 39 lashes.

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Joe: I believe I possess some qualifications in that I'm rather unscrupulous. L: I know all about your qualifications and they're excellent.