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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
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
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
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
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
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering

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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