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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
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
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
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
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

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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