Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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