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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Man
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
- Hideous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
- Diminish
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- Nov 07, 2020
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
- Great Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
- Envy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life Is Too Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
- Often
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
- Great Minds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
- Dodge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
- Passions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our true passions are selfish.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020