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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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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
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
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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

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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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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