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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac

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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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
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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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Death Expectation Man True
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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