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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

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Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

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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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There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

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Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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