Justine 淑女的眼泪 Chapter 33

"Having proven that solitary ¹ pleasures are as delicious as any others and much more likely to delight, it becomes perfectly ² clear that this enjoyment ³, taken in independence of the object we employ, is not merely of a nature very remote from what could be pleasurable to that object, but is even found to be inimical to that object's pleasure: what is more, it may become an imposed suffering, a vexation, or a torture, and the only thing that results from this abuse is a very certain increase of pleasure for the despot who does the tormenting ⁴ or vexing ⁵; let us attempt to demonstrate this., ," Voluptuous ⁶ emotion is nothing but a kind of vibration ⁷ produced in our soul by shocks which the imagination, inflamed ⁸ by the remembrance of a lubricious object, registers upon our senses, either through this object's presence, or better still by this object's being exposed to that particular kind of irritation ⁹ which most profoundly stirs us; thus, our voluptuous transport this indescribable convulsive needling which drives us wild, which lifts us to the highest pitch of happiness at which man is able to arrive is never ignited save by two causes: either by the perception in the object we use of a real or imaginary beauty, the beauty in which we delight the most, or by the sight of that object undergoing the strongest possible sensation; now, there is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign ¹⁰ and almost never experience; and, furthermore, how much self-confidence, youth, vigor ¹¹, health are not needed in order to be sure of producing this dubious ¹² and hardly very satisfying impression of pleasure in a woman. To produce the painful impression, on the contrary, requires no virtues ¹⁴ at all: the more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding ¹⁵ his success. With what regards the objective, it will be far more certainly attained ¹⁶ since we are establishing the fact that one never better touches, I wish to say, that one never better irritates one's senses than when the greatest possible impression has been produced in the employed object, by no matter what devices; therefore, he who will cause the most tumultuous impression to be born in a woman, he who will most thoroughly ¹⁸ convulse this woman's entire frame, very decidedly will have managed to procure ¹⁹ himself the heaviest possible dose of voluptuousness ²⁰, because the shock resultant upon us by the impressions others experience, which shock in turn is necessitated ²¹ by the impression we have of those others, will necessarily be more vigorous if the impression these others receive be painful, than if the impression they receive be sweet and mild; and it follows that the voluptuous egoist, who is persuaded his pleasures will be keen only insofar as they are entire, will therefore impose, when he has it in his power to do so, the strongest possible dose of pain upon the employed object, fully ²² certain that what by way of voluptuous pleasure he extracts will be his only by dint ²³ of the very lively impression he has produced.", ,"Oh, Father," I said to Clement ²⁴, "these doctrines ²⁶ are dreadful, they lead to the cultivation ²⁸ of cruel tastes, horrible tastes.", , ,"I am not speaking to you of consequences," I put in abruptly ³⁵, "but of the thing itself; if indeed you are the stronger and if through atrocious principles of cruelty you love to take your pleasure only by means of causing suffering with the intention of augmenting ³⁷ your sensations, you will gradually come to the point of producing them with such a degree of violence that you will certainly risk killing ³⁸ the employed object.", ,"So be it; that is to say that, by means of tastes given me by Nature, I shall have carried out the intentions of Nature who, never affecting her creations save through destructions, never inspires the thought of the latter in me save when she is in need of the former; that is to say that from an oblong portion of matter I shall have formed three or four thousand round or square ones. Oh Therese, is there any crime here? Is this the name with which to designate what serves Nature? Is it in man's power to commit crimes? And when, preferring his own happiness to that of others, he overthrows ³⁹ or destroys whatever he finds in his path, has he done anything but serve Nature whose primary and most imperious inspirations enjoin ⁴⁰ him to pursue his happiness at no matter whose expense? The doctrine ²⁵ of brotherly love is a fiction we owe to Christianity and not to Nature; the exponent ⁴¹ of the Nazarene's cult ²⁷, tormented ⁴², wretched and consequently in an enfeebled state which prompted him to cry out for tolerance ⁴³ and compassion ⁴⁴, had no choice but to allege ⁴⁵ this fabulous ⁴⁶ relationship between one person and another; by gaining acceptance for the notion he was able to save his life. But the philosopher does not acknowledge these gigantic rapports ⁴⁷; to his consideration, he is alone in the universe, he judges everything subjectively ⁴⁸, he only is of importance. If he is thoughtful of or caresses ⁴⁹ another for one instant, it is never but in strait connection with what profit he thinks to draw from the business; when he is no longer in need of others, when he can forcefully assert his empire, he then abjures ⁵⁰ forever those pretty humanitarian ⁵¹ doctrines of doing good deeds to which he only submitted himself for reasons of policy; he no longer fears to be selfish, to reduce everyone about him, and he sates his appetites without inquiring to know what his enjoyments ⁵² may cost others, and without remorse ⁵³."#p#分页标题#e#, ,The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.这座城堡巍然耸立在沙漠的边际 ，显得十分壮美 。,The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定
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