:52:09
I will always remain the same girl.
:52:13
She who had three moments of madness
in her life.
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And the last, wonderful madness
was knowing you.
:52:32
We were invited to a concert
at the hunchback Du Bois' home.
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He was an eccentric gentleman
with uncertain amorous boundaries,
:52:39
just as uncertain were
the boundaries of the Parma dukedom,
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divided between the Spanish
and the French.
:52:44
That evening, two civilizations,
two opposite conceptions of life,
:52:47
faced each other.
:52:49
An antique proverb says,
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"What is lighter than a feather ?
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Ashes.
:52:58
And what is lighter than ashes ?
:53:02
The wind.
:53:03
And lighter than the wind ?
:53:05
Woman.
:53:07
And lighter than woman ?
:53:09
Nothing."
:53:10
We exercise much power over women,
much tyranny,
:53:14
and we made them accept it
only because
:53:17
they are kinder,
:53:20
more reasonable,
:53:22
more generous than man.
:53:24
Such qualities which should have made
them superior to us,
:53:28
instead, put them at our mercy,
:53:30
because men, in fact, are a hundred
times more unreasonable,
:53:35
more cruel, violent.
:53:37
They are more inclined
by nature, to oppress.
:53:39
Women's kisses are like a glass
of wine.
:53:44
You drink and drink,
and drink... and then succumb.
:53:47
He who never speaks badly of women,
does not love them.
:53:53
Because to understand them and love
them, you must suffer for them.
:53:58
So then, and only then,