We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZACIn diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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