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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.
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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
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Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.
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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
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With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.
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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.
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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
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Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore de Balzac