"Women don't understand themselves and what is more they do not care about understanding."

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

“Sex is an absinthe whose strength only the strong can stand. In both sexes there are two successive crises, the sexual and the sensual. The first comes at a fixed period … the second generally coincides with the completion of growth. Sometimes, when decline is beginning, a third occurs, which like the first brings with it a condition of sentimentality.”

“Time does not live for them, they live in the absolute. A curious creature. But then all women are curious creatures, girls above all.”

“All poetry is an affair of the body, that is, to be real, it must affect the body.”

“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.”

“We write as we feel, as we think, with our entire body.”

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