A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZACMarriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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