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Mademoiselle de Maupin (1834)
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What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
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Critical lice are like bodily lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
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There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly.
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Virginity, mysticism, melancholy, — three unknown words, — three new maladies brought in by Christ.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Born:
August 30, 1811
Died:
October 23, 1872
(aged 61)
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