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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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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
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
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
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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
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
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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
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
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking

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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