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As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then th...more

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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

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An overwhelming curiosity makes me ask myself what their lives might be like. I want to know what they do, where they're from, their names, what they'...more

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Leon was weary of loving without any result; moreover he was beginning to feel that depression caused by the repetition of the same kind of life, when...more

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

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Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that surrounds me, I have turned to you? All the memori...more

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He was savoring for the first time the ineffable subtleties of feminine refinement. Never had he encountered this grace of language, this quiet taste ...more

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One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fictio...more

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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

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She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, b...more

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He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

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Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

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Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with d...more

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But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.