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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

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By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

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God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

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In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

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Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

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