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My God! What is this country doing to me? Because it has rejected me, let us consider it coldly, let us watch it lose the honour and its life.

Because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Men who loved you when you were twenty, and who continue to see you the way you looked then are impossible to replace.

Mothers and women in love: both ferocious females.

Evil is visible, it burns, it smugly displays itself for all to see.

And aren't the most beautiful follies the ones linked to love?

This thing of Beauty is a Guilt forever.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Waiting is erotic

Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.

But why are we always the ones who have to suffer?" she cried out in indignation. "Us and people like us? Ordinary people, the lower middle classes.

And besides, in the end, perhaps love demands marble palaces, white peacocks and swans.

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd ...

She cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.

For music alone can abolish differences
of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.

When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them.