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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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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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The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

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Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?

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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

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

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Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

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I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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