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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

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Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

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Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

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

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A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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