"By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate."
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"Love knows nothing of modesty."
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"True love rules especially through memory."
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"Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors."
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"Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others."
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"Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts."
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"All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept."
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"Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?"
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"Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another."
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"The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness."
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"L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art."
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"A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity."
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"The union of a want and a sentiment."
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"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin."
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"The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes."
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"Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?"
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"Love is the most melodious of all harmonies."
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"There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain."
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"A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne."
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"On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts."
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