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flower heart intuition
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
literature virtuous-woman virtuous
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
art nature literature
What is art? Nature concentrated.
marriage wedding literature
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
leadership sports bad-ass
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
inspirational good-morning marriage
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
math numbers intellectual
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
suicide terrible
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
mom mother fashion
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
girl suffering pleasure
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
love kissing thinking
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
spring years enemy
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
men literature poor
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
bad-ass events architecture
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.