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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

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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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
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
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life

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