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

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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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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
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
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
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

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

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