Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZACAt fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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We love because we love.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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