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

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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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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
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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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