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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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Reading brings us unknown friends

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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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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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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

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To speak of love is to make love.

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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

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

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