In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
HONORE DE BALZACPoetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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We love because we love.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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