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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time

I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

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