A man will stab another for a gesture or a denial. Is it not permissible for an honest woman who has been lost, dishonoured and betrayed to throw the man who betrayed her into the arms of a courtesane?
 Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (1796). copy citation

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Author Denis Diderot
Source Jacques the Fatalist and his Master
Topic denial women
Date 1796
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Henry
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