I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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