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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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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

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It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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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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Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

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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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Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

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