Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
HONORE DE BALZACMany people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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