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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

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

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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

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When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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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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A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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

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Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

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How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

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