We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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