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No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

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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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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

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Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

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Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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