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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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

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All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

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Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

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Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

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[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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