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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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 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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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