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Quotes from A Virgin Heart — Remy de Gourmont

d. 1915 France

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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)

Women are complex, of course not more so than men, but in a different way that men cannot understand.

A Virgin Heart (1922)

Grace from on high so opportunely purifies the petty human passions.

A Virgin Heart (1922)

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)

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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Remy de Gourmont (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.