The difference breeds hatred.
STENDHALThe pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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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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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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