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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

Honore de Balzac

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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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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Dare Love Motive Natural Woman
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
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
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
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
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
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Conversion Earth Equality Fact Power Right
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
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Complaint Kind Love Time Vaccination
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
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
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Angry Character Measurement
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small

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