"I love her beauty, but I fear her mind."
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"Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one."
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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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"Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness."
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"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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"Every true passion thinks only of itself."
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"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."
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"People happy in love have an air of intensity."
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"A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love."
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"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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"Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained."
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"Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us."
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"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."
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"If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion."
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"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."
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"Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form."
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"Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."
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"The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears."
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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."
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