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

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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
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
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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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
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
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See

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

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