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With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed," the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.

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It has since struck me as one of the most touching aspects of the part played in life by these idle, painstaking women that they devote all their gene...more

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When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future ...more

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Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, sh...more

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... since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the vari...more

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... the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom s...more

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But when his mistress for the time being was a woman in society, or at least one whose birth was not so lowly, nor her position is so irregular that h...more

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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One morning indeed, I felt a sudden misgiving that she not only had left the house but had gone for good: I had just heard the sound of a door which s...more

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Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

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And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent...more