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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.

— Remy de Gourmont A Virgin Heart (1922)

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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.

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The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous.

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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.

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