"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."

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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche