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

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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
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
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
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst

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