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We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

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We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

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Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

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The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

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A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

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