So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

Man desires, woman is desired.

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.

Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.