People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
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