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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
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

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