"Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart."
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"My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul."
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"Lovers are made by a kiss."
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"An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl."
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"One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines."
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"The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution."
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"I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion."
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"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."
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"They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other."
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"These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here"
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"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."
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"A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground."
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"What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities."
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"Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance."
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"In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it."
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"From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied."
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"Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art."
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"Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water."
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"When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss."
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"I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction."
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