Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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