Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZACA mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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