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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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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
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People

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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