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Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
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
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
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

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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