The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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