“Every man would like to possess all the women in the world, but a woman only wants the man she loves and to whom she is faithful.”
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Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
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Elfriede Jelinek 50
Austrian writer 1946Related quotes
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Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 48
Une femme est d'une plus grande utilité pour notre vie si elle y est, au lieu d'un élément de bonheur, un instrument de chagrin, et il n'y en a pas une seule dont la possession soit aussi précieuse que celle des vérités qu'elle nous découvre en nous faisant souffrir.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925), Ch. I: "Grief and Oblivion"