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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos on Women

1741–1803 France

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One has lived long enough if one has had time to win the love of women and the esteem of men.

Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)

Man enjoys the happiness he feels, woman the happiness she gives. This difference, so essential and yet so seldom noticed, has a marked difference on the whole of their respective behaviour. A man's pleasure is to satisfy desires, a woman's is chiefly to arouse them.

Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)

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