Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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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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