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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
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
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
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 woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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
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
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

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