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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.

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The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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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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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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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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The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

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

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

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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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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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There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

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True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

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