Love
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies
Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love
To speak of love is to make love
The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing
Love knows nothing of modesty
Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it
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