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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.