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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
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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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
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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