Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACCoffee 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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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