Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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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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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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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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