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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

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

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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

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What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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True love rules especially through memory.

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One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

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