Once tastes are formed nothing in the world can destroy them
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"Once tastes are formed nothing in the world can destroy them" (Les goûts se forment et rien au monde ne peut plus les détruire) is a dictum by Marquis de Sade recorded in Justine.
Full fragment:
- "C’est dans le sein de la mère que se fabriquent les organes qui doivent nous rendre susceptibles de telle ou telle fantasie; les premiers objets présentés, les prémiers discours entendus, achèvent de déterminer le ressort; les goûts se forment et rien au monde ne peut plus les détruire."
English translation by Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver:
- "It is in the mother's womb that there are fashioned the organs which must render us susceptible of such-and-such a fantasy; the first objects which we encounter, the first conversations we overhear determine the pattern; once tastes are formed nothing in the world can destroy them."
It is cited in the following English-language books:
- The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature by Ihab Hassan
- The Perverse Imagination: Sexuality and Literary Culture by Irving H. Buchen
- Imaginary Biographies: Misreading the Lives of the Poets by Geoff Klock
- Sexual Fiction by Maurice Charney
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