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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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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Moments Music Phrase Thinking 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
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman

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