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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
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All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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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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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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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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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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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
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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.