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

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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion

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

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