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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

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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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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

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