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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
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
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
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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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People

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