Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Happiness
“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
“In the blood of Eden,
Lie the woman and the man.
With the man in the woman,
And the woman in the man.”
Blood of Eden
Song lyrics, Us (1992)
“A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.”
Source: Murder in Mesopotamia
The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVI
Context: Turn where you will, everywhere, the man and the woman ever confronting each other, the man who loves a hundred times, the woman who has the power to love so much and to forget so much. I went on my way again. I came and went in the midst of the naked truth. I am not a man of peculiar and exceptional traits. I recognise myself in everybody. I have the same desires, the same longings as the ordinary human being. Like everybody else I am a copy of the truth spelled out in the Room, which is, "I am alone and I want what I have not and what I shall never have." It is by this need that people live, and by this need that people die.
