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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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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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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

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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 fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

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By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

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If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

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Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

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Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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