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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Honore de Balzac

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Double Feeling Friendship Love Myself
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
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
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
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
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
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
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
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

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