"L'amour, tel qu'il existe dans la société, n'est que l'échange de deux fantaisies et le contact de deux épidermes."
— Nicolas Chamfort

January 1, 1970

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Love, as it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins. — Maximes et pensées (1805), nr. 359