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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
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 English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
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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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
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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