"A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them."
-Ninon de L'Enclos
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"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.“
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"It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness."
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"The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength."
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"Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion."
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"The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience."
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"The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them."
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"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
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"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
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"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
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