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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Honore de Balzac

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Actor Drama God Heaven Man Poet Writing
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Children Family Intimate Life Moments Parents Willing
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
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Hope Light Stimulation
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Feeling Life Ourselves Simplicity
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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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Creation Genius Husband Marriage Woman
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty

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