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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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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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
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
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

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

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