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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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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
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
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel 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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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

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