Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZACThe press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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