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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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