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“Women treat us as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and they are always bothering us to do something for them.” “I should have said whatever they ask for they had given to us,” murmered the lad, gravely. “They create Love in our natures. They have a right to demand it back.”

“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.” 1891! Tijdloos.