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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

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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
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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 see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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