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Fontenelle disait: ‘Il n'est point de chagrin qui tienne contre une heure de lecture.’ Or, de toutes les lectures, la plus entraînante est celle des ouvrages érotiques, surtout lorsqu'ils sont accompagnés de figures expressives.
L'Anti-Justine (1798)
The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty — a woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The ear is the last resort of chastity: after it is expelled from the heart, it takes refuge there.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
A secret passion defends the heart of a woman better than her moral sense.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women: he is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)