True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
HONORE DE BALZACTalent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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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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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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.
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