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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

Honore de Balzac

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Courage Depend Energy Happiness Illusion Myself Work
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Finding Forgiveness Heart Mom Yourself
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Creation Genius Husband Marriage Woman
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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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
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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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
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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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman

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