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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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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
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
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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

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