"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...












What you love too violently finishes by killing you.
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"It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
"...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...
"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.
"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 ...
"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...
"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...
"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...