Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure...

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure...

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the...

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.