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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)