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A good book is an event in my life.

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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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong

A good book is an event in my life.

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