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Modesty was made for the ugly.


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Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.



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Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!



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To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.



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Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart



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The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.



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The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.



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Books follow morals, and not morals books.



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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.





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