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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
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
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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