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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
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
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time

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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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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