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Beauty is the greatest of hum...

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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The habits of life form the s...

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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The great secret of social al...

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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The sanctity of womanhood is ...

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

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There are no little events wi...

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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The mind, too, has its regime...

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

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In love, what a woman mistake...

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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Coffee falls into the stomach...

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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A letter is a soul, so faithf...

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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Kindness is not without its r...

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

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Marriage must fight constantl...

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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The boor covers himself, the ...

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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People exaggerate both happin...

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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Hope is a memory that desires...

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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Our worst misfortunes never h...

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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Everything becomes agitated. ...

Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

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Like hunger, physical love is...

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

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Sometimes, one gesture compri...

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

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In the first woman we love, w...

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

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If the artist does not fling ...

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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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...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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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...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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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....