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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

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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
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True

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