Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
HONORE DE BALZACDo you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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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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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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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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