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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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