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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

— Guy de Maupassant

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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.

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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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