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In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

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

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On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

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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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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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

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To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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