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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
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
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself

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