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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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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please

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