The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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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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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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