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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.

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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
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
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.

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