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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True

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