“Sex is an absinthe whose strength only the strong can stand. In both sexes there are two successive crises, the sexual and the sensual. The first comes at a fixed period … the second generally coincides with the completion of growth. Sometimes, when decline is beginning, a third occurs, which like the first brings with it a condition of sentimentality.”

— Remy de Gourmont

A Virgin Heart (trans. Aldous Huxley), Musson Books, Toronto 1922
A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

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French writer 1858–1915

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