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women passion europe
Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
women dresses poetic
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
women suffering weakness
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
women feelings action
One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.
women desire female
One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.
women talking storm
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.
women angel suffering
Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.
strong stress moving
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?
falling-in-love heart feelings
But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.
kings home feelings
The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
struggle pride men
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
hate men hatred
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
women men
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
peace heart men
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.