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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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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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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
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 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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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