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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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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time

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