Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACMemories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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We love because we love.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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