Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
HONORE DE BALZACPoetry 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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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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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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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