How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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