It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his sensations, at first studies to please rather than to be loved.


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


It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his...

It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his...

It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his...

It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his...