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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
Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him
Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration
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