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

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The more one judges, the less one loves.

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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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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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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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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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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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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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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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