All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
HONORE DE BALZACEvents are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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