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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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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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

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

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