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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading

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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