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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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

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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