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

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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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present

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