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[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

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

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By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

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Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

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We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

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