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art lying secret
The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.
love modesty knows
Love knows nothing of modesty.
memories mind body
Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.
two facts sides
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.
marriage mean passion
When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.
marriage fighting monsters
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.
marriage law maintenance
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.
marriage party fighting
Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.
paris pretty-woman whim
Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.
answers pleasure greater
Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
powerful government order
What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?
mother loss hands
A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.
two males female
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
pride animal earth
When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.