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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
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 first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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

I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

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