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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

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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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
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
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
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
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
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 boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth

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