What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.

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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.

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There is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.

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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

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Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.

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