A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task of existence: the propagation of the species. I saw woman as the personification of nature, as Isis, and man as her priest, her slave; and I pictured her treating him as cruelly as Nature, who, when she no longer needs something that has served her, tosses it away, while her abuses, indeed her killing it, are its lascivious bliss.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

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

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.

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