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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Beauty is nothing other than the 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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
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
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science

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

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