Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.[Sans la vanité, sans la coquetterie, sans la curiosité, sans la chute en un mot, la femme n’est pas la femme. Il y a dans sa grâce beaucoup de sa faiblesse.]

Source:Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography (Postscriptum de Ma Vie) (1907), Chapter XIII. Thoughts, Page 398
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