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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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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 wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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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