You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

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To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.

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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.

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You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

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