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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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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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Behind every fortune there is a crime.

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[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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Glory is the sunshine of the dead

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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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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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The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

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Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

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The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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