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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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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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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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