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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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 see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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

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