The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more you judge, the less you love.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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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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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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