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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

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