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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
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 good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science

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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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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