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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

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The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
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

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