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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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
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
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
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
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
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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

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