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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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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
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
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
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
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 difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner

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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