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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
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
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking 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
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
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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