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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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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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish

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