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"Teleny returned me my kisses with the passionate eagerness of despair. His lips were on fire, his love seemed to have changed into a raging fever. I don't know what had come over me, but I felt that pleasure could kill, but not calm me. My head was all aglow!
"There are two kinds of lascivious feelings, both equally strong and overpowering: the one is the fervent, carnal lust of the senses, enkindled in the genital organs and mounting to the brain, making human beings
'Swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel
Divinity within them breeding wings
Wherewith to scorn the earth.'
The other is the cold libidinousness of fancy, the keen and gall-like irradiation of the brain which parches the healthy blood.
"The first, the strong concupiscence of lusty youth—
'as with new wine intoxicated,'
natural to the flesh, is satisfied as soon as men take largely
'their fill of love and love's disport,'
