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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
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
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
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
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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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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