Arsène Houssaye Quote

Women live only in the emotion that love gives. An old lady confessed that she had loved much, when young: "Ah!" she exclaimed, "the exquisite pain of those days!"


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Women live only in the emotion that love gives. An old lady confessed that she had loved much, when young: Ah! she exclaimed, the exquisite pain of...

Women live only in the emotion that love gives. An old lady confessed that she had loved much, when young: Ah! she exclaimed, the exquisite pain of...

Women live only in the emotion that love gives. An old lady confessed that she had loved much, when young: Ah! she exclaimed, the exquisite pain of...

Women live only in the emotion that love gives. An old lady confessed that she had loved much, when young: Ah! she exclaimed, the exquisite pain of...