He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
HONORE DE BALZACGratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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