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

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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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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young

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