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People happy in love have an air of intensity.

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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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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.

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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: January 23rd, 1783

Died: March 23rd, 1842

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