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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset

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