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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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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
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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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
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
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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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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

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