The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
HONORE DE BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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