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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. ↗

— Balthus

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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. ↗

— Balthus

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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. ↗

— Balthus

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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning. ↗

— David Baltimore

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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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