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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Honore de Balzac

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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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