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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.

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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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 Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
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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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
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
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.

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