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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
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
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
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
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish

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