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• You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.
• The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part…
• You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
• The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.
• Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.
• The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.
• I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the…
• If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the…
• Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.
• Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.
• A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.
• Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these…

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