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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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
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
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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 only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
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
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
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

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