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Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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