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In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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

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Behind every fortune there is a crime.

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

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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

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

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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

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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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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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For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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Nothing about me surprises me.

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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

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