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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
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
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
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love

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