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Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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
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
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
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 English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road

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