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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
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
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
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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