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"The battle of the spirit with the senses is the gospel of modern man I do not care to have a share in it"

"Yes, Mount Olympus would be the place for you, Madaer support the antique serenity, least of all in love The idea of sharing a woman, even if it were an Aspasia, with another revolts us We are jealous as is our God For exalorious Phryne

"We prefer one of Holbein's ins, which is wholly ours to an antique Venus, no matter how divinely beautiful she is, but who loves Anchises to-day, Paris to-morrow, Adonis the day after And if nature triu, passionate devotion to such a wo demonic and cruel, and we read into our happiness a sin which we must expiate"

"So you too are one of those who rave about modern women, those miserable hysterical feminine creatures who don't appreciate a real man in their somnambulistic search for some dream-man and e their Christian duties; they cheat and are cheated; they always seek again and choose and reject; they are never happy, and never give happiness They accuse fate instead of cal that they want to love and live as Helen and Aspasia lived Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman"

"But, oism which wants to keep woman like some buried treasure All endeavors to introduce pereable huious cerealities Can you deny that our Christian world has given itself over to corruption?"

"But--"

"But you are about to say, the individual who rebels against the arrangements of society is ostracized, branded, stoned So be it I aan I will liveto do without your hypocritical respect; I prefer to be happy The inventors of the Christian e have done well, simultaneously to invent immortality I, however, have no wish to live eternally When withas far as Wanda von Dunajew is concerned comes to an end here belohat does it profit els, or whetherto one man whom I don't love, merely because I have once loved him? No, I do not renounce; I love everyone who pleases ly? No, it is more beautiful by far, than if cruelly I enjoy the tortures, which my beauty excites, and virtuously reject the poor felloho is pining away for , rich, and beautiful, and I live serenely for the sake of pleasure and enjoyment"