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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

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