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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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