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Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.

It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Life is a long ache which rarely sleeps and can never be cured.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

No human creature can give orders to love.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.