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

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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

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

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

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To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. 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 the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.

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You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

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

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