Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
HONORE DE BALZAC
HONORE DE BALZAC
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Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac 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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Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The more you judge, the less you love.
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