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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

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The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

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Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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

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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

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The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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