“Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.”
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“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
― Essays, First Series
― Essays, First Series
“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”
― Vile Bodies
― Vile Bodies
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