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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
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