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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

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One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

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Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

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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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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

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Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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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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