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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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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
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
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
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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