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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Honore de Balzac

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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Creation Genius Husband Marriage Woman
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish

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