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  1. We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs ... of our barbarous ancestors.
  2. Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death o…
  3. That was perhaps the only woman I have ever loved - no - that I ever should have loved. Ah, well! who can tell? Circumstances rule one. And…
  4. Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
  5. I was hard hit. I wanted to ask this little girl to marry me. If we had passed eight days together, I should have done so! How weak and inc…
  6. Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, o…
  7. I did not love her, I did not even know her. And for all that, I was touched and conquered. I wanted to save her, to sacrifice myself for h…
  8. 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 a…

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