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.

A Virgin Heart (trans. Aldous Huxley), Musson Books, Toronto 1922 - A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)