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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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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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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
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
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
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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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please

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