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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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