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Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

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Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

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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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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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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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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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