Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
HONORE DE BALZACLove may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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