"Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream."
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"Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling."
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"However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?"
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"There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances."
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"We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked."
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"God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker"
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"Six weeks with a fever is an eternity."
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"No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness."
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