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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

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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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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 see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

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