Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes.
Original text (French)
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Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.
Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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