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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
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
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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 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
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

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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