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strong past creative
To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
envy emotion insult
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
women order realizing
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!
doe delicacy sometimes
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
heart despair gowns
A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.
beauty power government
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.
paris people kitchen
The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.
beauty world monstrosity
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
white doubt steps
Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.
religious twins madness
Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.
names religion sects
Sects differ more in name than tenets.
ideas criticism genius
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
humorous men expression
In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.
death science actors
The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.