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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
Beauty is nothing but a 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
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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