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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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The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
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
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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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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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Enough History Interest Moral
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love

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