A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
HONORE DE BALZACHe who best knows the world will love it least.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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