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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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
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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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
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
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source

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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