The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories


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his pleasure is no longer normal? He is abnormal forever. He is a  
voluptuary. Just as the drunkard and the victim of the morphine habit  
may be recognized by their face and manner, so we may recognize a  
voluptuary. He may repress himself and struggle, but nevermore will he  
enjoy simple, pure, and fraternal relations toward woman. By his way of  
glancing at a young woman one may at once recognize a voluptuary; and I  
became a voluptuary, and I have remained one."  
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