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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.

Honore de Balzac

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
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Feature Himself Man Woman
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
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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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Feature Flower Intuition Persistence Small Thinking
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
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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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex

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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