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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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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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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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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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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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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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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
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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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