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From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

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

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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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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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The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

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

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

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Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

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The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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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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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

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