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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
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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