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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 Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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 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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
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 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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science

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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