“Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.”
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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
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Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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