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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

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They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

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Nothing about me surprises me.

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To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

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The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

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

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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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True love rules especially through memory.

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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

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The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

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Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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