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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

Honore de Balzac

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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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