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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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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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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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 idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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