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Émile de Girardin on Women

1802–1881 France

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A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the prism through which we see her.

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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