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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.

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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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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 seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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

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.

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