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All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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What is art? Nature concentrated.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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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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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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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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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 motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.