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Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized.

— Remy de Gourmont A Virgin Heart (1922)

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Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.

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)

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