Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
HONORE DE BALZACNoble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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