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I see but one rule: to be clear.

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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

I see but one rule: to be clear.

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