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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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Sensuality is the death of the soul.

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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

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

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This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

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