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If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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