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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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
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
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
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering

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

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