The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
HONORE DE BALZACDo you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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