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When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eternal because he doesn't read more
When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you...it's overwhelming.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing read more
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.
Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
[Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
[Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell,
Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart,
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell,
Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart,
Utters another.
Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
But only give a bust of marriages:
For no one read more
Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
But only give a bust of marriages:
For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,
He would have written sonnets all his life?
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.