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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong

If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

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