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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

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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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
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
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste

If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

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