Who shall say which is more ghastly, the sight of the bleached skulls or of dried-up human hearts
She was pretty by force of contrast; if she had been happy, she would have been charming. Happiness is the poetry of woman, as the toilette is her tinsel
she lacked the two things which create woman a second time — pretty dresses and love-letters
no accusations mingled with her prayers.
Father Goriot, upon whose face a painter, like the historian, would have concentrated all the light in his picture
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering
It is one of the most detestable habits of a Liliputian mind to credit other people with its own malignant pettiness
There are men who feel more at their ease when they stand up before another man who threatens their lives with sword or pistol than in the presence of a woman
it would be much better to do it by letter, and not to utter the words that should stab her to the heart
his first day on the battlefield of civilization in Paris
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