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.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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