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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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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise

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