Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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