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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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

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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