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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
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
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
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See

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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