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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

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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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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom

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