Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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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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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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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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