Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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