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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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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
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 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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste

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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