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The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

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God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

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What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

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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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Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

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Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

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Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

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