“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.