13 quotes
Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.
Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized.
A Virgin Heart (1922)
The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous.
A Virgin Heart (1922)
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Women are complex, of course not more so than men, but in a different way that men cannot understand.
A Virgin Heart (1922)
All poetry is an affair of the body, that is, to be real, it must affect the body.
Le Problème du Style (1902)
Grace from on high so opportunely purifies the petty human passions.
A Virgin Heart (1922)
Literary style is the product of the toal phyisology.
Le Problème du Style (1902)
Women don't understand themselves and what is more they do not care about understanding.
A Virgin Heart (1922)
Making mental sermons, can spoil delicious moments.
A Virgin Heart (1922)
We write as we feel, as we think, with our entire body.
Le Problème du Style (1902)
Time does not live for them, they (girls) live in the absolute. A curious creature. But then all women are curious creatures, girls above all.
A Virgin Heart (1922)
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. There is but one way of understanding women and that is to love them.
A Virgin Heart (1922)