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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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

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

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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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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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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

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It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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