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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

Stendhal

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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
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
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War

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