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Honore de Balzac Quotes: Necessity is often the spur to genius.
         

Necessity is often the spur to genius.


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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.



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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.



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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.



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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.



When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.



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