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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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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
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
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
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
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

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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