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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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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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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
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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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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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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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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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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