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Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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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
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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