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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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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 habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

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Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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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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There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

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But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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Sensuality is the death of the soul.

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