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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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 novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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

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