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Marriage is a fight to the dea...

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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Marriage is an institution nec...

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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Marriage must perforce fight a...

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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When passion is not fed, it ch...

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

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Possibly the words materialism...

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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Several sorts of memory exist ...

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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Man is no match for woman wher...

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

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Love knows nothing of modesty....

Love knows nothing of modesty.

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The secret of the nobility and...

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

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We must have books for recreat...

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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A naked woman is less dangerou...

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

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The greater a man's talents, t...

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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In the silence of their studio...

In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

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Paris, like every pretty woman...

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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Nothing can afford a woman gre...

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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It is very difficult to pass f...

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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Poetry is only born after pain...

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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Are not poets men who fulfill ...

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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Poets and men of action differ...

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

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There are two kinds of poets: ...

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....