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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Stendhal

There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste

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