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

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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
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
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
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
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People

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