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religious twins madness
Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.
eye frozen made
No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.
white doubt steps
Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.
beauty world monstrosity
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
paris people kitchen
The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.
suffering devotion feels
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
beauty power government
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.
intimate evasion unworthy
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.
believe men europe
The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.
generosity people twenties
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
inspire suffering desire
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?
love-is imagination novelists
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.
forgiveness forgiving
When women love us they forgive everything.
forgiveness pedestal lovers
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.