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As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

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Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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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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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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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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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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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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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.

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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

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

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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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