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What is really beautiful must always be true.

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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
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
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
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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