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• To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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  Laughter, Joining In, Joining

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• The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

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  Eye, Artist, Animal

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• The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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  Art, Perfection, Simplicity

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• Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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  Bird, Males, Break Out

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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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• 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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  Artist, Literature, Grocers

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• The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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  Art, Motherhood, Self

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1841-1842.

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• Resignation is a daily suicide.

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  Suicide, Resignation

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• By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

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  Women, Believe, Passion

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• Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

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  Angel, Men, Judging

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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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• 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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• 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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• For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

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  Bread, Worship, God Love

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• But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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  Positive, Cutting, Sentimental

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.87, 谷月社

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• Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

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  Husband, Lying, Player

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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  Feelings, Natural, Midst

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• Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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  Like Love, Hatred, Trifles

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• Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

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  Love, Expression, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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

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  Literature, Spirit, Heavenly

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• But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

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  Falling In Love, Heart, Feelings

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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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• There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

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  History, Principles, Events

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