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love kissing thinking
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.
spring years enemy
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
men literature poor
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
bad-ass events architecture
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
life happiness courage
All happiness depends on courage and work.
passion dumb deaf
Passion is born deaf and dumb.
writing ink slave
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
bread worship god-love
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
exaggeration-is literature bad-grades
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
men unexpected caprice
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
funny-love first-love love-is
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
loss secret crime
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
wedding flower wife
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
solitude moral resources
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.