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which makes one think of autumn suns, the beauty of well-ripened women, and Saint Mar- tins Summers. None of those who were present in the tav- ern of the Rue de la Villa-Hermosa will forget with what petulance the painter gave up his waistcoat to the poet, so well did he under- stand what a fine thing it was to sing of the poor dogs. Just so did a magnificent Italian tyrant in the Good Age offer to the divine Aretino either a dagger crusted with precious stones or a mantle fit to wear at Court in exchange for a well-wrought sonnet or a curiou…
1928 · PDF PAGE 136
…e where thou art not, the lover that thou knowest not, mon- strous flowers and delirious perfumes, cats that swoon at music and groan as women do with harsh, soft voice. And thou shalt be loved of my lovers, courted by my courtiers. Thou shalt be the queen of those men whose eyes are green and whose throats I have clutched in my nocturnal caresses: of those who love the sea, the vast, tumultuous sea, the shapeless water that hath many shapes, the place where they are not, the women whom they know not; the sinister flowers that resemble the thu…
1928 · PDF PAGE 165
…of hor- ror in order to turn my heart to Thee, like the cure which follows the knife; Oh Lord, have pity, have pity upon the mad men and women that we are! Oh Creator, is it possible that monsters should exist in the eyes of Him alone who knoweth why they exist, how they have made themselves, and how they would have made themselves, and could not?
1928 · PDF PAGE 134
… great mouth red and white and delicious; as who should dream of the miracle of a su- perb flower blossoming on volcanic soil. There are women who fill one with desire to conquer them and to enjoy them, but she makes me wish to die by inches underneath her eyes.
1928 · PDF PAGE 12
… good old woman withdrew herself again into her eternal solitude, and wept in a corner, saying to her- self, Ah, for us unfortunate old women the age is past when we can please even the inno- cent, and we frighten the little children that we wish to love.
1928 · PDF PAGE 144
…ly says, We have lived strongly, and we seek something to admire and to respect. One of them turned the conversation to the subject of women. It would have been more philosophical not to speak of it at all, but many witty persons after drinking do not despise commonplace talk. At such times one listens to whoever is speaking as one listens to dance music. Every man, one of them was saying, has passed through the age of Chérubin; I mean the time when, in default of dryads, one kisses trunks of trees without disgust; that is the first grade …
1928 · PDF PAGE 36
…ire me without measure or pity! One would say, to hear you sigh, that you suffered more than sixty-year- old gleaners, or the old beggar women who pick up broken crusts at the doors of dirty inns. If at least your sighs expressed remorse, they would do you some honour; but they only interpret your satiety of well-being, and that you are overwhelmed with rest; and then, you go on for ever spreading yourself in vain words: Love me well; I have so much need of it; console me here, caress me there. Come, I will try to cure you; we shall perhaps …
1928 · PDF PAGE 70
Gnomes, the Salamanders, the Sylphides, the Sylphs, the Nixies, the Undines and their women-folk,I mean the law which allows the Fairies in such a case as this, when all the gifts are gone, the power of giving yet one more additional and exceptional, provided always that she have sufficient imagination to create it on the spur of the moment. The good Fairy then replied, with a self- possession worthy of her high rank, I give your sonI give himthe gift of pleasing. But please how?To please?Why to please? the little shop-keeper obstinate…
1928 · PDF PAGE 117
…terday Papa took me to the theatre. There are big, sad palaces, beyond which one sees the sea and the sky, and in them there are men and women very serious and very sad too; but much more beautiful and better dressed than the people we see about, and they talk in a singing voice. They threaten each other, they beseech, they lament, they often put their hand to daggers that they have in their sashes; oh, but it is beautiful! The la- dies are much lovelier and taller than the ones that come to see us at home, and though they look terrible with th…
1928 · PDF PAGE 89
…g him to describe the Opera ball to her, and ask him if one may go there bare-foot, as one may on the Sunday dances, when the old Kaffir women themselves get drunk and furious with joy, And then again she will ask if the fair ladies of Paris are all more beautiful than she. Dorothy is admired and petted by everyone, and she would be perfectly happy if she were not obliged to put aside copper after copper so as to buy the freedom of her little sister; who has all of eleven years and who is already a woman, and so beautiful. She will succeed, no …
1928 · PDF PAGE 163
…But, said I to her, pursuing in my turn my own fixed idea, why do you think I am a doc- tor? Because you are so nice, and so kind to women. Singular logic, said I to myself. Oh, I am hardly ever deceived, I have known ever so many of them. I love doctors so much, that although I am not ill I sometimes go and see them just for the pleasure of seeing them. Some of them say coldly to me, There is nothing the matter with you, but there are others who understand me because I make eyes at them. And when they fail to understand you? Why,…
1928 · PDF PAGE 176
… in troops fifteen miles and more to partake of the repast which the charity of cer- tain sexagenarian old maids has got ready for them; women whose empty hearts are given to animals because senseless men will have no more to do with them. There are others who, like runaway negroes, maddened by love, leave, on certain days, their departments to
1928 · PDF PAGE 38
…there are misfortunes that have no compensation. But in the world into which she has been thrown she had never been able to believe that women could ever deserve an- other fate. Now, between ourselves, my affected dar- ling; to see the hells with which the world is crowded, what do you wish me to think of your pretty hell? You who rest only upon materials as soft as your own skin; eat nothing but well- cooked food, carefully carved by a clever ser- vant. And all these little sighs which swell your perfumed breast, what can they mean for me, g…
1928 · PDF PAGE 108
…s often as your fancy bids; you shall be drunk with pleasure without weariness, in charming countries where it is always warm, where the women smell as sweet as flowersand the rest, and the rest he added, rising and dismissing me with a friendly smile.
1928 · PDF PAGE 75
… first sight I found a bizarre charm in her. To define this charm, I know nothing better to compare it to than to that of very beautiful women who, though in their decadence, no longer grow older, and
1928 · PDF PAGE 115
…port, namely, to obtain from me a piece of the fatal, the happiness- conferring cord. Among the signatories there were, I must say, more women than men, but not all, you may believe it, belonged to the lowest class or even to the vulgar. I have kept these letters. And then, of a sudden, light broke in my brain; I understood why the mother was so anxious to take away the cord, and by what commerce she proposed to console herself.
1928 · PDF PAGE 105
… household gods, their wives, their children; never again to confront the lofty billows of the sea. Strange faces were there, of men and women, marked with a fatal beauty; it seemed to me that I had known them long since, at times and in countries whose exact remem- brance I could no longer fix, and which rather inspired me with a fraternal sympathy than with that fear which usually arises at the sight of the unknown. If I wished to try to define in any way their strange expression, I would say that never have I seen eyes that shone more forcef…
1928 · PDF PAGE 145
…he age of Chérubin, I have been more sensitive than anyone else in the world to the enervating foolishness, the irritating mediocrity of women. What I love above all in animals is their frank- ness; judge them, what I must have suffered with my last mistress. She was a princes bastard. Beautiful, it goes without saying; without that, why should I have taken her? But she spoilt that great quality by an unbecoming and deformed ambi- tion. She was a woman who always wished to play a mans part:You are not a man; Oh, if only I were a man!of us…
1928 · PDF PAGE 121
…o! said the other, on a night like this. The third said, as he counted up their money, These pigs do not appreciate music, and their women dance like bears. Luckily, be- fore the month is up we shall be in Austria, where the folk are pleasanter. Perhaps we should do better to go down to Spain; the year is getting on, says one of the others. Let us run away from the rain and get nothing wet but our throats!
1928 · PDF PAGE 119
… slept in passing my hand over her arms and her neck and her shoulders. Her arms and neck are ever so much fatter tan those of all other women, and her skin is so soft, so soft, that one would say it was letter paper, or silk paper. I had so much pleasure in this that I should have gone on for quite a long time if I had not been afraid, afraid of her waking up, and afraid too of I do not know what. Afterwards I pushed my head among her hair, which hung down her back as thick as a mane, and it smelt as nice, I assure you, as the flowers in the g…