Previously, when I began to write this tale, I set out by saying that Mlle. Claude was a whore. She is a whore, of course, and I'm not trying to deny it, but what I say now is--if Mlle. Claude is a whore then what name shall I find for the other women I know? Henry Miller
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This quote from Emile Zola is a very clear on the ambiguity of prostitutes. Some people would say that a woman who sleeps with a man for money is a prostitute. Some people would say that women who have sex for free are not prostitutes. But Zola, being a writer, says nothing about those women.

He says that it’s not the woman who chooses to have sex for money or without pay that makes her a prostitute. It’s all about the man. In Emile Zola’s mind, men can commit adultery with whomever they want and it is the man who decides to do wrong to whomever he wants and it is the man who decides to do wrong to whomever he wants and it is the man who decides to do wrong to whomever he wants and it is the man who decides to do wrong to whomever he wants and it is the man who decides to do wrong to whomever he wants and it is the man who decides to do wrong to whomever he wants and it is the man who decides to do wrong to whomever he wants and it is the man who decides to do wrong to whomever he wants and it is the man who decides for himself whether or not he does wrong or right.

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  1. What's a fuck when what I want is love?
  2. Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
  3. Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
  4. The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
  5. Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
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