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Honore de Balzac: 'What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?'

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Honore de Balzac: 'It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'There is something great and terrible about suicide.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.'

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Honore de Balzac: '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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Denis Diderot: 'The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.'

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Denis Diderot: 'Good music is very close to primitive language.'

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Denis Diderot: 'Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.'

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Denis Diderot: 'It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.'

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Denis Diderot: 'Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.'

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Denis Diderot: 'The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'All universal moral principles are idle fancies.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'What is more immoral than war?'

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Marquis de Sade: 'There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.'

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