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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

Stendhal

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

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