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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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Stupid, Bed, World

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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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Ocean, Society, Levels

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I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

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Feelings, Paper, Action

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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Writing, Tables, My Thoughts

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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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Husband, Government, Needs

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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Winning, Men, Lasts

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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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Philosophical, Journey, Men

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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

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Women, Talking, Storm

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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Power, Political, Principles

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In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

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Jealousy, Fashion, Smart

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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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Writing, Talent, Particular

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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

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Block, Believe, Men

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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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Drunk, Height, Salesman

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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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Honest, Praise, Said

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Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

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Reality, Imagination, Details

"The Purse".

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Glory is the sunshine of the dead

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Sunshine, Glory

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A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

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Doubt, Suffering, Doe

1831 La Recherche de l'absolu.

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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

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Mother, Pardon

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Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

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Moving, Secret, Affair

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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

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Keys, Joy, Intellectual

"The Wild Ass's Skin". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1831.

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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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Thrones, Married, Slave

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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Art, Poetry, Vision

Honore De Balzac (2011). “Louis Lambert”, p.36, The Floating Press

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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

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Couple, Fighting, Blessing

Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

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As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

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Simple, Men, Secret

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Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

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Monsters, Habit, Should

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Born: May 20, 1799
Died: August 18, 1850
Occupation: Novelist
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