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

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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

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When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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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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He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

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There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

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I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

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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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No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

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