“Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune, out of place. The sun should have sulked at the appearance of the first insect, and gone out altogether with the advent of the chimpanzee.”
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“L'art d'aimer c'est savoir joindre à un tempérament de vampire la discrétion d'une anémone.”
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“Un remord vaut mieux qu'une hésitation qui se prolonge. H.de Montherlant”
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“There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.”
― Betty Blue
― Betty Blue
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