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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.

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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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
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
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
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
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

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.

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