Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
HONORE DE BALZACCourtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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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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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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