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Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

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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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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

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The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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

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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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