We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZAC
HONORE DE BALZAC
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac 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.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac 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.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski
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PinkPink I know I write too many love poems, and perhaps this is me admitting that the love inside me is still there somewhere, stagnant – but its a cruel addiction. I need a intervention.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc I see myself through your eyes and I love what I see. So please never look way.
Buried CaesarBuried Caesar Teach boys that manhood is not determined by how often they hold back their tears.
Ine GraceIne Grace There was a time when I loved you too much that it made me feel the darkest shades of blue. It’s been years now, but I’m seeing life in other colors again.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
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