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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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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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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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What is art? Nature concentrated.

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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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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: May 20th, 1799

Died: August 18th, 1850

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