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

Honore de Balzac

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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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