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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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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World

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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