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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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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
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
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
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
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love

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