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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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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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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 love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
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
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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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True

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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