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" Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. "
Honore de Balzac
Die
Ecstasy
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" All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. "
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" Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. "
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" It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. "
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" Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. "
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" I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. "
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" The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. "
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" A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. "
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" Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. "
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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 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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" Those who spend too fast never grow rich. "
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Rich
" Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. "
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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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" At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. "
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