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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Honore de Balzac

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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Face Impossible People Society
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Confront Moral Resource Solitude

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