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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Honore de Balzac

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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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
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
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Dictionary Fools Gratitude Heart Man World
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
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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Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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