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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
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
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring

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