Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
HONORE DE BALZACPoetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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We love because we love.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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