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They [twin beds] are the most ...

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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If you are to judge a man, you...

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

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Narrow minds can develop as we...

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

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The endless legacy of the past...

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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Inspiration is the opportunity...

Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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Man can start with aversion an...

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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He hesitated till the last mom...

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, 'I shall win!'--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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Good befalls us while we sleep...

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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Girls are apt to imagine noble...

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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You're a fine fastidious young...

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

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Women are always true, even in...

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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How did you get back?' asked V...

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

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However gross a man may be, th...

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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And he, like many jaded people...

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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A letter is a soul, so faithfu...

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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What moralists describe as the...

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, EugГЁne de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the who

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We flew back home like swallow...

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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Ah! What pleasure it must be t...

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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I yield to your wishes. It is ...

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

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Whoever does not visit Paris r...

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....