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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
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

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