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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

Honore de Balzac

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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