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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.

Honore de Balzac

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Instrument Love Man Music Musician Pieces Play Weird Woman
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Dare Love Motive Natural Woman
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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Feature Flower Intuition Persistence Small Thinking
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
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
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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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself

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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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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