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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing

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