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

Honore de Balzac

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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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