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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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 tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True

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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