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I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by drag...more

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Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

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True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

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My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.

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Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you. And had she crossed your...more

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we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

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Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my ne...more

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Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

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Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.

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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

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But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that ...more