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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

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

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

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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

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The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

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