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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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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
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman

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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