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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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