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I am God, says Love, for Love is God and God is Love, and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. I am God by divine nature and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. Thus this precious beloved of mine is taught and guided by me, without herself, for she is transformed into me, and such a perfect one, says Love, takes my nourishment.
Marguerite Porete
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Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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So many women here are ruled by their bodies. All buxom or bony and I don't want a confused woman or a careless woman or a depressed woman, Franck, I want a woman who is entirely under control. How can a woman look after my house and my children if she can't even look after her own body?
Marie NDiaye
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Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.
Maurice Barrès
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One reproaches a lover, but can one reproach a husband, when his only fault is that he no longer loves?
Madame de La Fayette
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The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
Pierre Loti
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The good effect of Fortune may be short-lived. To build on it is to build on sand.
Honorat de Bueil de Racan
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Women live only in the emotion that love gives. An old lady confessed that she had loved much, when young: "Ah!" she exclaimed, "the exquisite pain of those days!"
Arsène Houssaye
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Yet this is the watch by night.
Let us all accept new strength, and
real tenderness. And at dawn, armed
with glowing patience, we will enter
the cities of glory.
Arthur Rimbaud
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
Alfred de Vigny
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If they do only one jump, you know, there's a fifty percent chance of an injury. Two jumps it's eighty percent. The third time, it's dead certain they won't get off Scot free. You see? It's not a question of training, but the law of averages.
Pierre Boulle
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There is no power in nature which from nothing could have made the universe, and none which could reduce the universe to nothing:
Maurice Renard
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All my life I have been favored by incredible luck. It would take too long to enumerate all of the occasions...
Claude Simon
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The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's Straits.
Eugène Sue
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This is not love, such has only its name and semblance, which loves no thing unless it gains from it.
Bernart de Ventadorn
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Coup de des jamis n'abolira le hasard A Cast of Dice Never Can Annul Chance
Stéphane Mallarmé
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One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.
Jean Anouilh
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
Honoré de Balzac
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Everything interesting takes place in the dark; there is no doubt about it. We know nothing of the true story of the men. ―
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
Jean Genet
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A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!
Edmond Rostand
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Driven away by barbarian thrumming the Muse has spurned the six-footed exercise ever since she beheld these patrons seven feet high.
Sidonius Apollinaris
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How many have died without having given even one kiss to their chimera!
Théophile Gautier
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He is the happiest who renders the greatest number happy.
Joseph-François-Édouard de Corsembleu
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