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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

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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
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
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True

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