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

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
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
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself

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