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.
HONORE DE BALZACIn the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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