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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
The mind has no sex.
Years do not always make age.
We must have a passion in life.
honesty dies in selling itself.
Not to love is to cease to live.
a woman's heart has no wrinkles.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
No religion can be built on force.
Party politics is now a real farce.
almost all novels are love stories.
fretting at trouble only doubles it.
The intellect seeks, the heart finds.
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.
Lying, like license, has its degrees.
No one makes a revolution by himself.
When they are among us cats are angels
Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.
Humanity is outraged in me and with me.
Nature distributes her favors unequally.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
Gossiping is the plague of little towns.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
No human creature can give orders to love.
O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.
Where love is absent there can be no woman.
It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.
Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.
a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.
Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.
Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.
Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.
I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
