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Marcel Proust: 'It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.'

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Marcel Proust: 'In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.'

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Marcel Proust: 'If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.'

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Marcel Proust: 'There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.'

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Marcel Proust: 'The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Love is a game in which one always cheats.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.'

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