46 quotes found
Writer · French · 1858–1915
French writer (1858–1915)
“Women feel and it suffices to steer them satisfactorily through life as well as to solve problems which leave men utterly helpless. It is only through feelings one can get in contact with them. The...”
“Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized.”
“Making mental sermons, can spoil delicious moments.”
“The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous.”
“Sex is an absinthe whose strength only the strong can stand. In both sexes there are two successive crises, the sexual and the sensual. The first comes at a fixed period … the second generally coin...”
“Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.”
