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• Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

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  Feelings

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• This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

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  Struggle, Moving, Fall

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• To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

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  Strong, Past, Creative

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• Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

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  Friendship, Thinking, Negative

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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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  Pain, Men, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.15, 谷月社

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• Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

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  Circles, Problem, Reason

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• What is art? Nature concentrated.

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  Art, Nature, Literature

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• The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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  Country, Paris, Trying

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• Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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  Like Love, Hatred, Trifles

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• Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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  Memories, Mind, Peculiar

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• Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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  Power, Doe, Force

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.89, The Floating Press

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• God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

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  Player, Men, Heaven

  "Socrate Chrétien" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 911-917), 1922.

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• Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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  Girl, Mother, Men

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• Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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  Powerful, Sin, Repentance

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.59, 谷月社

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• Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

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  Atheism, Thanks, Century

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• Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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  Heart, Angel, Looks

  Honore De Balzac (1958). “Cousin Bette”

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• A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

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  Love, Coquetry, Virtuous

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• No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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  Husband, Wife, Lovers

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• Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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  Men, Action, Providence

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• Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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  Clouds, Veils, Shrouds

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• Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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  Faults, Repentance, Ends

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• Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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  Men, Doe, Done

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• Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

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  Blow, Wind, Mobility

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• Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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  Wish, Spirit, Force

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• The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

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  Jesus, Police, Enemy

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