There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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