A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
HONORE DE BALZACPassion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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