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Which author captures women's aesthetic most beautifully?

>> No.15214498

Schopenhauer and Weininger

>> No.15214501

None of them and all of them because the real beauty lies in how much passion men can devote into something so worthless and meaningless as the human female

>> No.15214502

>>15214489
Harold Bloom admitted to finding Thomas Hardy’s female characters titillating, as well as Flaubert’s Emma Bovary, so I’d try that.

>> No.15214509

Henry James

>> No.15214517

>>15214489
I hate that Mishima turned me into a pitfag

>> No.15214518

Try Stendhal

>> No.15214545

>>15214489
Tolstoy

>> No.15214550
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>> No.15214562

>>15214550
imagine how strong your children would be if you breeded with that.

>> No.15214871

>>15214550
It's what she's wearing which is the worst, nice enough face though.

>> No.15214881

>>15214489

>Those armpits

Jesus Christ I have a new fetish. What even is this?

>> No.15214922

>>15214881
More of her
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peopleofplatt/sets/72157624572361792/with/5571430503/

>> No.15215023

>>15214545
this

>> No.15215039

>>15214509
specific rec?

>> No.15215052

>>15214489
stop thinking with your dick, OP

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>>15214489
Stendhal and Jean de La Bruyère

>> No.15215452

>>15215343
>Jean de La Bruyère
specific rec?

>> No.15215527

>>15215452
The Characters

>> No.15215807

>>15214518
any work in particular?

>> No.15215928

>>15214489
Shindo L., really puts things into perspective

>> No.15216163

>>15214498
kek

>> No.15216734

>>15214501
It's 2020, you can come out of the closet now

>> No.15217609

>>15214517
Souns based, which book?

>> No.15217626

>>15217609
Confessions of a mask most likely

>> No.15218018

“ An equally inexplicable and equally immutable reaction gives the girl and the rose a very different value: that of ideal beauty. There are, in fact, a multitude ' of beautiful flowers, since the beauty of flowers is even less rare than the beauty of girls, and characteristic of this organ of the plant. It is surely impossible to use an abstract formula to account for the elements that can give the flower this quality. It is interesting to observe, however, that if one says that flowers are beautiful, it is because they seem to conform to what must be, in other words they represent, as flowers, the human ideal. At least at first glance, and in general: in fact, most flowers are badly developed and are barely distinguishable from foliage; some of them are even un- pleasant, if not hideous. Moreover, even the most beautiful flowers are spoiled in their centers by hairy sexual organs. Thus the interior of a rose does not at all correspond to its exterior beauty; if one tears off all of the corolla's petals, all that remains is a rather sordid tuft. Other flowers, it is true, present very well-developed and undeniably elegant stamens, but appealing again to common sense, it becomes clear on close examination that this elegance is rather satanic: thus certain kinds of fat orchids, plants so shady that one is tempted to attribute to them the most troubling human perversions. But even more than by the filth of its organs, the flower is betrayed by the fragility of its corolla: thus, far from answering the demands of human ideas, it is the sign of their failure. In fact, after a very short period of glory the marvelous corolla rots indecently in the sun, thus becoming, for the plant, a garish withering. Risen from the stench of the manure pile-even though it seemed for a moment to have escaped it in a flight of angelic and lyrical purity-the flower seems to relapse abruptly into its original squalor: the most ideal is rapidly reduced to a wisp of aerial manure.”