The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
HONORE DE BALZACWe cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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