The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
HONORE DE BALZACMany people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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