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No one looked at her, no one thought of her. She felt herself swallowed up in the scorn of these virtuous creatures, who had first sacrificed, then rejected her as a thing useless and unclean.

— Guy de Maupassant Boule de Suif (1880)

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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Boule de Suif (1880)

A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

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