Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
STENDHALFriendship has its illusions no less than love.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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