When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
HONORE DE BALZACGive to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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