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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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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

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