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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Attack Fall People Religion Rich Royal
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Chivalry Love Oneself Service Wisdom
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
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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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
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
We love because we love.
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Love One Liner
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

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