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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they d

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. – Nicolas Chamfort

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Nature
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. – Ernest Hemingway

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I never exaggerate. I just remember big. – Chi Chi Rodriguez

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Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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