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Nevertheless man has found love, which is not a bad reply to that sly Deity, and he has adorned it with so much poetry that woman often forgets the se...more

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...perhaps, also this short embrace may infuse in their veins a little of this thrill which they would not have known without it, and will give to tho...more

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What you love too violently finishes by killing you.

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Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.

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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governm

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Is it not rather the touch of Love, of Love the Mysterious, who seeks constantly to unite two beings, who tries his strength the instant he has put a ...more

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There were some children round him playing in the dust on the paths. They had long fair hair, and with very earnest faces and solemn attention were ma...more

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We are all very much alike in France in this respect; we still remain knights, knights of love and fortune, since God has been abolished whose bodygua...more

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I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one's comprehension; for rivers, beautiful, yet fugitive a...more