A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.

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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

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Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

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