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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
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
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
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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