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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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